Northern and Southern Sudanese violence after death of Garang

The Sudanese authorities continued for the second running day night a curfew in the capital Khartoum, and scores of armored vehicles were deployed at the entrances of main roads.

Sudanese medical sources said that at least 42 persons were killed in acts of riots which extended to the outskirts of Khartoum following the announcement to the killing of John Garang, the first deputy for the Sudanese President, in a helicopter the belonged to the Ugandan presidency, which crashed when it was taking him from Uganda to southern Sudan.

Acts of violence and confrontations continued in parts of the Sudanese capital on Tuesday for the second running day as scores of northern Sudanese citizens took the streets to challenge southern Sudanese citizens, amid national and international calls for calm.

News reports in Sudan said that the citizens from north Sudan pursued a policy of taking the initiative and attacking any southern Sudanese citizen approaching the residential areas or trade centers which survived the acts of riots erupted on Monday.

The southern parts of Khartoum witnessed bloody confrontations in which 50 Sudanese aging between 15 and 40 were injured.

In Tooty Island which separates three cities, the citizens of the island evacuated some 20 southern Sudanese families to outside the island to al-Haj Youssef areas in Bahri city, al-Thawrat and the downtown of Um Durman witnessed various incidents.

News reports in Khartoum quoted the secretary general of the Islamic commission for Southern Sudan, Manqar Ajak, that angry demonstrators burnt the mosque of the handicraft market in al-Rank city in higher Nile estate, and also attacked a second mosque in the same area.