Mourners And Worshippers Protest After 3 Die In Sudan Demos

Hundreds of mourners returning from the funeral of a protester and crowds of worshippers launched spontaneous anti-government rallies in Sudan Friday, witnesses said, a day after three demonstrators died in Khartoum

Khartoum, (APP - UrduPoint / Pakistan Point News - 18th Jan, 2019 ) :Hundreds of mourners returning from the funeral of a protester and crowds of worshippers launched spontaneous anti-government rallies in Sudan Friday, witnesses said, a day after three demonstrators died in Khartoum.

Deadly protests have rocked Sudan since December 19 when the government raised the price of bread.

The rallies have escalated into broad demonstrations against President Omar al-Bashir's three decades rule.

"We are not scared, we will not stop" shouted protesters in Khartoum as they returned from the funeral of a demonstrator who died during clashes with riot police in the eastern district of Burri on Thursday, witnesses said.

Video footage showed men and women, many wearing masks, shouting slogans against the government after the burial as a thick plume of smoke billowed from burning tyres and rubbish.

In a separate demonstration, Muslim worshippers who had gathered for Friday prayers chanted "Freedom, peace, justice" inside a mosque in Omdurman, the twin city of Khartoum, witnesses said.

"After the prayers they streamed out of the mosque chanting slogans against the government," a witness told AFP.

"They were immediately confronted by riot police who dispersed them." A third protest was also swiftly dispersed in an area in the south of the capital, witnesses said.

Riot police on Thursday broke up a march by hundreds of people on the presidential palace in Khartoum chanting "freedom, peace, justice" -- the key slogan of the protest movement.

Hours later residents of Burri staged a demonstration that saw clashes betweenriot police and protesters, witnesses said.