Two conscripted students killed, 70 injured in Sudan

Khartoum residents received with sadness the bodies of two students forcefully sent to the south and 70 injured student were admitted to medical corps hospital.

Some of wounded students are permanently handicapped as a result of participating in the ongoing war between National Islamic Front (NIF) government forces and the troops of the Sudan People's Liberation Army (SPLA), a police source said yesterday.

The arrival of the bodies the two students, one from Omdorman and the other from Al Gazira stirred up feelings of Sudanese sorrow and anger. The people in El Thawra criticized the forceful conscription of students when they received the 18-year-old student's body. Relatives of the victim expressed their disappointment over the death of their son, Al Khartoum daily said today October 28.