Sudanese police wound 12 students, arrest 50

The opposition Ummah Party stressed in a statement released on Sunday in Cairo that Sudanese security forces had wounded 12 students and arrested some 50 during student demonstrations in which thousands of persons participated on Saturday in Khartoum. The party added that the students were dispersed by bullets, sticks and tear gas.

Eyewitnesses said that thousands of university students from Two Niles University and the University of Sudan took to the streets chanting "a revolution against the unconstitutional government. A revolution against the dictatorship."

They threw stones at the policemen who confronted the demonstrators using tear-gas and sticks.

Meanwhile, a southern Sudanese official asserted that five persons were killed in a bomb explosion in the southern Khartoum district in a pro-government southern Sudanese group, due to an internal row that erupted among its members.