Grenade blast during wedding injures two in Central Darfur

14/08/2013 23:36

Five pro-government militiamen detonated a grenade during a wedding celebration in Umm Dukhun, Central Darfur, critically injuring two of the guests, sources said.“The armed militiamen came to wedding and began firing gunshots in the air. We asked them to stop and join us in the celebrations. They got angry and detonated the grenade,” a relative of one of the victims said. The two wounded are being treated in the Umm Dukhun hospital, the source told Radio Dabanga.Separately, militants attacked a man called Ahmed Ali, and a 65-year-old woman on Wednesday in Central Darfur’s Gemmeiza village, “seriously injuring them”.  They were transferred to a hospital.The victims were working on their farms when the gunmen invaded their land and beat them with riffle butts and whips.Farmers have been facing fierce attacks by herders allegedly armed by the government. Sources often recount how gunmen invade farms and force their livestock into the properties. “If people try to resist, they are beaten or even threatened to death, “ a source said.Photo: OCHA map (cropped)

Five pro-government militiamen detonated a grenade during a wedding celebration in Umm Dukhun, Central Darfur, critically injuring two of the guests, sources said.

“The armed militiamen came to wedding and began firing gunshots in the air. We asked them to stop and join us in the celebrations. They got angry and detonated the grenade,” a relative of one of the victims said. The two wounded are being treated in the Umm Dukhun hospital, the source told Radio Dabanga.

Separately, militants attacked a man called Ahmed Ali, and a 65-year-old woman on Wednesday in Central Darfur’s Gemmeiza village, “seriously injuring them”.  They were transferred to a hospital.

The victims were working on their farms when the gunmen invaded their land and beat them with riffle butts and whips.

Farmers have been facing fierce attacks by herders allegedly armed by the government. Sources often recount how gunmen invade farms and force their livestock into the properties. “If people try to resist, they are beaten or even threatened to death, “ a source said.

Photo: OCHA map (cropped)