Al-Yurae- (Reuters) – A 5-year-old girl was killed after being run over by security forces in the Kalakla neighbourhood south of the Sudanese capital, Khartoum, medics said on Tuesday.
Hadhreen organisation and the Central Committee of Sudanese Doctors said the child was the 101st person, and the 16th minor, to be killed by security forces since a military coup in October.
Military leaders have said the killings would be investigated.
Protests have flared on a daily basis in Khartoum for more than a week since the killing of two protesters in Kalakla in late May
Resistance sources said that the “car belonged to the central reserve police and it fled after they run over the child Rowan”.
Yesterday, police issued a statement saying that an incident report had been opened at the Kalaklala police station on the perpetrator and the statement went on to say,
“On the day of June 7, 2022, during the movement of the Police Vehicle Box Hilux belonging to the Central Reserve Forces, the child Rowan Tarek Elias Mohammed was part of an accident near the 2 square blocks next to the Sheikh Mosque was ambulanceed to the Turkish hospital in Kalakla by us and we communicated with her relatives and died for the mercy of her mawla.”
“All legal procedures have been taken by opening a crime investigation in the face of the driver under the materials (62/66/a) in the Kalakleh Traffic Section”
For more than eight months, there have been almost daily protests in Khartoum.