Sudan police launch tear gas at female students inside university

UPDATE 18:20 The police in Omdurman have tried to stop demonstrations inside a building of the Ahfad women’s University in Omdurman, the twin city of Khartoum. Radio Dabanga reports that several girls were injured and transferred to the hospital for treatment. While gathered inside the compound of the university, students started to call for a demonstration against the violence used against demonstrators in Sudan. While the leaders of the private university allowed the non-violent protest to take place inside the buildings, the university guards closed the gates to avoid crowds to enter. The police started to fire teargas cylinders from outside the compound in the direction of the buildings. Some students were still inside the buildings, but nobody was seriously harmed according to the University’s Dean, Gassim Badri. Others reported that one of the students passed away after inhaling the gas, but this could not yet be confirmed. Khartoum Medical Faculty In Khartoum medical students started to protest the killing of the pharmacists Salah Mudahir Sanhuri, 28, a pharmacologist shot dead during a protest on Friday. He was buried on Saturday morning while the police used teargas to disperse the mourners, angering many politicians including some from the ruling government National Congress Party. They were standing in front of the Khartoum Medical Faculty (See image).Medical Students and pharmacists protesting (Twitter picture):