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SSixty people were killed during a two-day crackdown on Sudanese protesters led by security forces, a committee of doctors close to the protesters said Wednesday.
A previous record set by the Central Committee of Sudanese Doctors had killed 40 dead since the bloody dispersal of a sit-in lasting several weeks in front of the army headquarters in Khartoum on Monday.
The committee stated that it had held "the (military) council militias … responsible for this mbadacre".
The protesters have previously designated the 16-year-old paramilitary Rapid Support Forces in the western region of Darfur, whose commander is the vice-president of the ruling military council.
As a result of the deadly crackdown, the military council announced that it was abandoning all previous agreements with the leaders of the demonstration on the transition to a civilian regime.
The protest movement in turn rejected the election promise made by the generals within nine months.
On Wednesday, hundreds of residents of the northern suburbs of Khartoum, Bahri, blocked the streets with stone barricades and waited in silence, a witness told AFP.
In the distance, we heard gunshots.
Early in the morning, sporadic gunfire could be heard in Khartoum 2, an area with several embbadies, an AFP journalist said.
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