Khartoum - Four school children and one adult were killed by
unknown snipers during an anti-government protest in central Sudan, a
doctors' association said Monday.
Dozens of others were injured, some of them critically, when a group
of secondary school children were peacefully protesting against the
ruling Transitional Military Council in the town of El Obeid in North
Kordofan State, the Central Committee of Sudan Doctors (CCSD) said in
a statement.
The identity or affiliation of the snipers remained unclear on
Monday.
Anti-government demonstrations began in the volatile East African
nation late last year with protesters calling for long-time leader
Omar al-Bashir to go.
The military stepped in in April, launching a coup and arresting him.
But protesters have argued that the new military rulers are a
continuation of al-Bashir's former regime and have sought more
concessions and a transition to civilian government.