Violence rocks Khartoum

Published August 3, 2005

KHARTOUM, Aug 2: Violence flared again in the Sudanese capital on Tuesday as angry southerners convinced that the helicopter crash that killed their leader John Garang was no accident continued to run riot.

Omdurman radio and witnesses said southerners set vehicles ablaze and attacked businesses owned by Arab northerners in violence concentrated in Hajj Yusef, a Khartoum suburb with a large southern community.

Security forces had brought riots in the centre of the capital under control after at least 42 people were killed in clashes on Monday.—AFP

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