Some 100 protesters were killed during the military and paramilitary attack on sit-in participants on Monday, not 60 people as previously reported, after a civil society group said at least 40 bodies had been pulled from the Nile and taken away by security forces.
"Forty bodies of our martyrs have been retrieved from the Nile river yesterday. They were taken in pickups belonging to the Janjaweed militias to an unknown destination," according to a statement the activist Sudan Doctors' Committee (SDC) released on Wednesday.
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