180 civilians injured in Sudan pro-democracy protests amid ongoing crackdown

At least 180 civilians were injured during Sudan's pro-democracy protests on Sunday, the Central Committee of Sudan Doctors said in a statement on Tuesday.

Sudanese security forces fired tear gas canisters at civilians, also using live ammunition, rubber bullets and stun grenades and causing scores of injuries, the committee stated.

Sudan's military rulers have continued with a crackdown on protesters calling for civilian rule, more than three months after Sudan's ruling General Abdel Fattah al-Burhan's led a coup against former Prime Minister Abdalla Hamdok's government on 25 October.

The doctors committee reported 117 injuries at protests in Khartoum, 29 in Khartoum Bahri, 18 in Omdurman, 10 in al-Qadarif and 6 in Kassala.

Central Committee of Sudan Doctors (CCSD)
February 1st, 2022

Field Report on Civilians’ injury cases during the January 30th anti-coup Protests.

180 injury cases among civilians have been accounted for to date, including 6 injury cases due to live ammunition, pic.twitter.com/db7xBWQ2qX

— لجنة أطباء السودان المركزية-CCSD (@SD_DOCTORS) February 1, 2022

Sudanese security forces also killed at least one protester on Sunday, taking the number of civilians killed since the coup to 79, the committee reported on Sunday.

Hamdok resigned as Prime Minister on 2 January, leaving the military in power amid an ongoing political and economic crisis.

However, pro-democracy protesters across the country have said they will continue demonstrating until civilian rule returns.

“We know the size of the sacrifices and the violence of the police, and the militias… and their willingness to kill, but this is the price of the freedom and civility that we demand,” Naglaa Sayed Ahmad, the Secretary-General of the Sudanese Resistance Committees told The New Arab last month.