Killings, robberies, hijacks in North Darfur

In North Darfur, two men were killed in two separate attacks on Monday and Tuesday. On Tuesday three commercial vehicles were hijacked. “Abu Torein was tending his farmland on Monday in the area of Khoran, one km northwest of Birkat Seira town. When Janjaweed on camelback attempted to steal his horse and donkey, he protested, whereupon they shot him dead on the spot,” a relative of the victim told Radio Dabanga. “They then took his animals, and fled.” In another incident, on Tuesday morning, “Janjaweed on camels killed Daoud Araw in the area of Tibra, 15 km west of Tawila town”. “After they had shot him dead, they took his 300 sheep, and fled,” a herder told Radio Dabanga from Tibra. On Tuesday afternoon, militiamen intercepted two commercial vehicles near Korma in North Darfur. The vehicles were on their way from Kabkabiya to El Fasher, capital of North Darfur, one of the passengers reported to Radio Dabanga. “The gunmen told us to get off, and robbed us of all our belongings. Then they took the vehicles, and left to an unknown destination.” The source added that another commercial vehicle was hijacked on the same day in the same area. File photo