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Sudanese man shot dead during anti-coup protests, say medics
Add ToI as a Preferred Source on Google![Demonstrators march with a large banner reading in Arabic "[we are] angry" during ongoing protests calling for civilian rule and denouncing the military administration, in the Sahafa neighborhood in Sudan's capital Khartoum on February 20, 2022. (Ebrahim Hamid / AFP)](https://static-cdn.toi-media.com/www/uploads/2022/02/000_323K3Z4.jpg "Demonstrators march with a large banner reading in Arabic \"[we are] angry\" during ongoing protests calling for civilian rule and denouncing the military administration, in the Sahafa neighborhood in Sudan's capital Khartoum on February 20, 2022. (Ebrahim Hamid / AFP)")
A Sudanese man is shot dead during a crackdown on anti-coup rallies, medics say, as a United Nations human rights expert arrived in the country.
The 51-year-old man was hit with “a live bullet to the chest,” according to the Sudanese Doctors’ Committee, bringing the death toll during the crackdown on protests against an October military takeover to 82.
“The martyr was a patient at a hospital in Khartoum North… and went out to get some air after struggling with shortness of breath due to the heavy firing of tear gas which filled the hospital ward,” the committee says, adding that he was then shot dead.
UN human rights expert Adama Dieng meanwhile is visiting Sudan until Thursday, on a trip initially planned for last month but postponed at the request of Sudanese authorities.
The Times of Israel Community.