Khartoum - A pregnant woman was killed and several other people
injured when fighting broke out among soldiers near the site of a
mass protest in Sudan's capital, Khartoum, a medical organization
said Wednesday.
Soldiers had fired shots at each other for unknown reasons near the
army headquarters where thousands of protesters have been staging a
mass sit-in for several months, the Central Committee of Sudanese
Doctors (CCSD) said in a statement.
The shooting comes on the second day of a 48-hour nationwide strike -
in which medics, lawyers, civil servants and airline personnel are
participating - aimed at pressuring the transitional military council
to make way for a civilian government.
Omar al-Bashir, who ruled Sudan for decades, was deposed and arrested
in a military coup in April that followed months of anti-government
protests.
But protesters say the new military rulers are a continuation of
al-Bashir's former regime and have clamoured for more concessions.