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Sat Sep 28, 2013, 04:55 AM Sep 2013

More than 3,000 protesters on Khartoum streets demand Bashir quit

Source: Reuters

More than 3,000 protesters took to the streets of the Sudanese capital Khartoum on Saturday to demand President Omar Hassan al-Bashir quit, witnesses said, after days of unrest in which dozens of people have been killed.

Daily demonstrations this week followed the government cutting fuel and cooking gas subsidies on Monday when pump prices doubled overnight.

Four protesters were shot dead by unidentified gunmen on Friday, police said, bringing the official death toll to 33.

In Khartoum's Burri district, home to a top government official, more than 1,000 people gathered for the funeral of one of the victims, Salah Sanhuri, a doctor from a prominent merchant family with strong ties to the government.

Read more: http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/09/28/us-sudan-protest-idUSBRE98R03920130928



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