Officer killed in ‘militia arms raid’ on Central Darfur police station

05/07/2013 23:08

A police station in western Mukjar locality in Central Darfur was attacked by militiamen on Wednesday night. Officer Osman Fadel Ismail, was killed. Witnesses told Radio Dabanga that members of the militia raided the police station at 8pm on Wednesday evening. Officer Ismail was on duty on his own. The sources say that the militiamen took all arms and ammunition they could find in the police station before they fled. Pro-government militiamen also reportedly beat, assaulted and robbed all the seeds, luggage and food in the possession of some Karofta area farmers about four kilometres from Mukjar city during the day on Wednesday. Witnesses told Radio Dabanga that militiamen first seized two donkeys, before heading for a nearby village to steal four camels, as well as pillaging most of the belongings of the villagers.File photo

A police station in western Mukjar locality in Central Darfur was attacked by militiamen on Wednesday night. Officer Osman Fadel Ismail, was killed.

Witnesses told Radio Dabanga that members of the militia raided the police station at 8pm on Wednesday evening. Officer Ismail was on duty on his own.

The sources say that the militiamen took all arms and ammunition they could find in the police station before they fled.

Pro-government militiamen also reportedly beat, assaulted and robbed all the seeds, luggage and food in the possession of some Karofta area farmers about four kilometres from Mukjar city during the day on Wednesday.

Witnesses told Radio Dabanga that militiamen first seized two donkeys, before heading for a nearby village to steal four camels, as well as pillaging most of the belongings of the villagers.

File photo