KHARTOUM, 31 December 2021, (TON): Medics said “Sudanese security forces shot and killed four protesters as tens of thousands of demonstrators defied a security lockdown and severed communications to rally against military rule.”

Pro-democracy activists have kept up a more than two-month-long campaign of street demonstrations against a military takeover in October.

The crackdown has now seen at least 52 people killed in protest-related violence, according to the independent Doctors’ Committee, which is part of the pro-democracy movement.

On Thursday, security forces killed with live rounds four protesters in Omdurman, twin city of the capital Khartoum, and wounded dozens, they said.

They added “we call on doctors to come to the Arbain hospital in Omdurman because the putschists are using live rounds against protesters and preventing ambulances from reaching them.”

Their plea was posted on social media accounts of Sudanese living abroad as authorities had severed domestic and international phone lines.

Web monitoring group NetBlocks said mobile Internet services were also cut.

Saudi network Al-Arabiya said several of its journalists had been wounded in an attack by security forces on its Khartoum office.