Sudan: Women Protest Drowning of Children At Khartoum Ministry

17 August 2018

Khartoum — Dozens of women staged a demonstration outside Khartoum's Ministry of Education yesterday after 22 students and a woman drowned in River Nile state on Wednesday.

The boat was reportedly taking them from El Kanisa area of El Kabna administrative unit on their way to schools in the area. The cause of the accident has been reported to be engine failure in the middle of the Nile, a river currently swollen due to the rainy season. Witnesses reported that after the boat's engine failed, it hit a rock or tree trunk that caused it to capsize.

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