North Darfur camp sheik in coma after shooting

04/05/2014 20:38

A sheikh of the Hai El Matar camp in Kabkabiya town, North Darfur, was critically injured when militiamen shot him inside his house on Saturday. Speaking to Radio Dabana, one of the Hai El Matar camp sheikhs said that two militiamen attacked 53 year-old sheikh, Abdel Shakour Ateem in his house at about 9 pm on Saturday evening. “Ateem was hit by three bullets, in the chest, his abdomen, and his right kidney. He went into a coma, and was immediately transferred to the hospital of Kabkabiya. On Sunday morning he was operated.” The assault was reported to the police and Unamid, the sheikh added. “They did not move, however, to prosecute the perpetrators.” File photo: Sheikhs attending a conference in El Fasher, North Darfur (Albert González Farran/ Unamid)

A sheikh of the Hai El Matar camp in Kabkabiya town, North Darfur, was critically injured when militiamen shot him inside his house on Saturday.

Speaking to Radio Dabana, one of the Hai El Matar camp sheikhs said that two militiamen attacked 53 year-old sheikh, Abdel Shakour Ateem in his house at about 9 pm on Saturday evening.

“Ateem was hit by three bullets, in the chest, his abdomen, and his right kidney. He went into a coma, and was immediately transferred to the hospital of Kabkabiya. On Sunday morning he was operated.”

The assault was reported to the police and Unamid, the sheikh added. “They did not move, however, to prosecute the perpetrators.”

File photo: Sheikhs attending a conference in El Fasher, North Darfur (Albert González Farran/ Unamid)