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Sudanese protestation against the subject takeover, which upended the countrys fragile modulation to democracy, successful Khartoum, Sudan, Sunday, Nov. 21, 2021. Sudans subject and civilian leaders signed a woody Sunday to reinstate Prime Minister Abdalla Hamdok, who was deposed successful a coup past month. The countrys apical general, Abdel Fattah Burhan, said successful televised statements that Hamdok volition pb an autarkic technocratic Cabinet until elections tin beryllium held. (AP Photo/Marwan Ali)

CAIRO – Security forces person targeted hospitals and blocked injured protesters from attraction since the subject seized power of the state past month, Sudanese doctors said Monday, aft raising the full fig of anti-coup protesters killed to 41.

Security forces person stopped ambulances, entered exigency rooms to apprehension patients, and fired teardrop state wrong astatine slightest 2 hospitals successful Khartoum since the Oct. 25 coup, according to a study from The Unified Office of Sudanese Doctors, a conjugation of aesculapian workers.

The Sudan Doctors Committee, different radical that released the caller decease toll, said that the latest unfortunate was a 16-year-old killed by a gunshot to the caput arsenic helium was protesting a caller power-sharing woody betwixt the subject and the country’s deposed premier curate connected Sunday. The radical tracks protest-related deaths.

There was nary contiguous effect from the country's subject oregon police, who person some been accused by the United Nations' apical quality rights assemblage of utilizing excess unit against the pro-democracy demonstrations. The United States and Western countries person repeatedly called connected the coup leaders to let civilians to protestation peacefully.

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But constabulary officials person successful caller days tried to region themselves from immoderate relation successful the deaths, saying their forces successful the streets are not equipped and that protesters person committed violence. They person repeatedly pledged to analyse reports of deaths.

On Sunday, Sudan’s deposed premier curate Abdalla Hamdok signed a woody that volition spot him reinstated, astir a period aft a subject coup enactment him nether location arrest. The statement envisions an independent, technocratic Cabinet to beryllium led by Hamdok until elections tin beryllium held. Even then, it would inactive stay nether subject oversight.

In response, thousands of Sudanese took to the streets Sunday to denounce what galore called a betrayal of the antiauthoritarian origin by their erstwhile premier minister, who has been the civilian look of the transitional authorities since it took powerfulness aft a 2019 fashionable uprising deposed longtime autocrat Omar al-Bashir.

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Security forces past fired teardrop state and unrecorded ammunition successful immoderate locations, according to activists. The country's main pro-democratic governmental groups issued statements objecting to the woody that reinstalled Hamdok.

The connection by the doctors' conjugation said that constabulary fired teardrop state wrong the Khartoum Teaching Hospital connected Sunday, adjacent the intensive attraction portion and neonatal ward.

A ample fig of demonstrators person been killed by gunshots fired by information forces, according to the committee.

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