North Darfur: Eight dead in traffic incident, armed robberies

Seven Sudanese died in a traffic incident near the Chad-Libya border last week. On Thursday, robbers killed a villager near the North Darfur capital. Two days earlier, a group of herders plundered Um Baji village in Tawila locality.

On Wednesday, a lorry carrying a large group of Sudanese gold miners collided with another vehicle near the border between Libya and Chad.

A relative of one of the deceased told Radio Dabanga that seven miners died instantly, 15 others sustained injuries.

The miners were on their way from Libya to the gold-rich area of Kouri at the border. Most of them were originally from Kutum locality in North Darfur.

Donkey

El Dood Adam Jiddo was shot dead in his house in Gallab village south-west of the north Darfur capital of El Fasher on Thursday.

A witness told this station that gunmen in military uniforms riding two camels attacked Jiddo inside his house. “They wanted to steal his donkey. When he protested, one of them shot him dead on the spot.”

Plundered

On Tuesday, a group of armed herders attacked Um Baji village north of Tabit in Tawila locality.

“They stormed the village, shooting densely in the air to chase us away. Mousa Yahya was seriously wounded by the bullets,” a villager reported. “After we had fled, the janjaweed plundered our entire village.”