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Sudan conflict: Student dead after being hit by stray bullet

In the midst of ongoing hostilities in the nation, a schoolteacher in Khartoum, the capital of Sudan, told the BBC that one of his students was struck in the head by a stray bullet.

Residents were becoming accustomed to the “scary” condition, the instructor, who went by the name Mo, told the BBC’s Newsday show on Wednesday.

“No one is listening or respecting the ceasefire,” he claimed, stating that loud artillery booms could be heard on Wednesday morning.

The teacher asked to transfer the interview to a safer location as gunfire temporarily interrupted the conversation.

A makeshift grave for a student killed on campus surroundings at the University of Khartoum Credit: Facebook

Mo said food supplies were getting less and less every day as shops and supermarkets remain closed. “Electricity is stable but any moment it can go off,” he said.

Schools and universities are calling on humanitarian organisations to help evacuate dozens of stranded people and students.

But Ghazali Babiker, Sudan’s acting director for the medical charity Médecins Sans Frontières, said that even aid agencies trying to help have been cut off.

“With this war no-one can walk out on the street. Everyone is trapped in their location,” he said.

It came as the Sudanese army and paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) traded blame for violating a 24-hour humanitarian truce that was declared on Tuesday.

Nearly 200 people have been killed in the fighting which began on Saturday.

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