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December 14 - 2020 TAWILA
A soldier was killed and two civilians were seriously wounded near
Dubo El Omda in North Darfur’s Tawila (locally called eastern Jebel Marra) on Saturday evening during in an attack on a commercial vehicle on its way to Deribat market in South Darfur.
Witnesses from the area said that seven gunmen riding camels intercepted the vehicle and opened fire, killing soldier Ashraf Ali, and wounding Mohamed Ali (35) and Adam Shougar (55). The witnesses said that the vehicle escaped to the army garrison in Katur.
Unidentified gunmen kidnapped Bahriya Mohamed (45) near Katur in Tawila three days ago, while she was on her way from Deribat to Dubo El Omda, traveling to Nyala in order to visit the hospital. Relatives of the kidnapped woman do not know her whereabouts. They told Radio Dabanga that the victim was carrying money to pay for her treatment in Nyala.
December 13 - 2020 EL ABBASIYA / EAST JEBEL MARRA
A gunman in Darfur (file photo)
Sudan witnessed various crimes in the past week. On Friday, a community leader was abducted In East Jebel Marra, South Darfur, while a minibus driver was killed in an armed robbery on Monday in El Abbasiya town, South Kordofan, amid a surge of crime in the area.
A minibus driving from Kosti in White Nile state to El Abbasiya town in South Kordofan was attacked by a group of four men wearing uniforms of the Popular Defence Forces in the area 30 kilometres north-east of El Abbasiya. They rode on motorbikes.