Eleven wounded in crackdown on anti-coup sit-in: Sudan's doctors

The crackdown came shortly after Sudan's military ruler promised to step down once a civilian government is formed.

Sudanese security forces descended on an anti-coup sit in to try and disperse protesters in the capital, Khartoum, wounding at least 11 people, a medical group said on July 5.

The crackdown came shortly after Sudan's military ruler promised to step down once a civilian government is formed.

According to the Sudan's Doctors Committee, which tracks protest casualties, security forces used tear gas on the demonstrators in the city's neighbourhoods of Burri and al-Jawda late on Monday.

Some of those hurt were hit by tear gas canisters and other solid objects in the head and elsewhere, tweeted the group.

Earlier in the day, Gen. Abdel-Fattah Burhan said in a televised speech that the military will withdraw from negotiations meant to solve the ongoing political crisis, and promised to dissolve the military-led sovereign council after a new transitional government is formed.

The council has governed the country since the military seized power in a coup last year. Mr. Burhan's statement was unclear and gave no timeframe on his own stepdown.

It was also not immediately known what Mr. Burhan meant by saying the military would withdraw from the internationally mediated talks between the ruling generals and the country's pro-democracy movement, which has denounced the October coup and demanded an immediate transfer of power top a civilian government.