"Killing of a student, killing of a nation, down down with military rule," the students chanted.
Hundreds protest in Sudan capital after student shot dead(The Peninsula Qatar)
Unidentified gunmen shot dead a Sudanese
student on Wednesday during a university campus demonstration and his
funeral turned into an anti-government protest involving hundreds of
students, eyewitnesses said.
"Killing of a student, killing of a nation, down down with military rule," the students chanted.
Earlier
gunmen in plain clothes had opened fire on around 200 students as they
protested against government plans to sell off buildings belonging to
the historic Khartoum University, the eyewitnesses said.
They identified the dead student as 20-year-old Mohammed al Sadek. Police could not be immediately reached for comment on the shooting and no other details were immediately available.
President Omar Hassan al-Bashir,
who took power in a 1989 coup, brooks little dissent in Sudan, which
has been suffering from an economic crisis since South Sudan seceded in
2011, costing Khartoum more then 70 percent of its oil revenues.
Bashir is wanted by the Hague-based International Criminal Court
to face charges of masterminding genocide, crimes against humanity and
war crimes during Sudan's Darfur conflict. He denies wrongdoing.
Last
week Amnesty International called for a thorough and impartial
investigation into violent attacks against students after an 18-year-old
student was shot dead.
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