Sudan: Health Ministry Statement On Doctor Killed Outside His Home

21 January 2019

Omdurman — The Forensic Medicine Specialist of the federal Health Ministry, Mahjoub Babikir, said in a statement yesterday that Dr Babikir Abdelhamid was fatally injured by a shotgun from the back, not from the front.

Dr Babikir Abdelhamid was reported killed by the Sudanese security forces who broke into a house where he was treating wounded protesters on Thursday. Another doctor, 60-year-old Muawia Khalil, died from his wounds on Friday after the security forces shot him on Thursday in his home.

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