Two killed, two wounded, six children kidnapped SW of Nyala

The Commissioner of Al Salam Locality reported, that two people got killed, two got wounded, and six children, under the age of ten, were kidnapped, following an attack by unknown assailants, possibly from the Tarjem tribe, in Kasara al Buram area, southwest of Nyala.

Al Tahir Mohammed and Ibrahim Ali Ma’allah died in this incident, and Mohammed Noor and Hamid Hassan were wounded. The six children that were kidnapped are: Zaki Ibrahim Soliman, Abdullahi Musa Nahar, Yusuf Adam Yusuf, Mustafa Jaber Al-Tahir, Daoud Hamid Ibrahim Minawi, and Fatuma Mohamed Moussa, daughter of Hamid Mustafa Baraka.

The attack was, allegedly, carried out by the Tarjem tribe. It seems that the attack was to prevent employees of the Zaghawa tribe to work on farms in the area of Kasara al Buram.

In downtown Nyala, after the attack, a large number of people gathered in front of the police station, calling for punishment of the perpetrators. They also demanded for an extension of state authority, which the protesters said is necessary to prevent new violent incidents, in future. The head of the shura of the Zaghawa tribe, Abdel Shafi Qardia, attributed the incident to the ongoing conflict between the two tribes on plantations in the Kasara al Buram area, which has yet to be resolved.