{"id":177955,"date":"2017-07-17T13:22:00","date_gmt":"2017-07-17T13:22:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dabangasudan.preview.websight.nl\/central-darfur-shootings-leave-five-dead-two-injured\/"},"modified":"2017-07-17T13:22:00","modified_gmt":"2017-07-17T13:22:00","slug":"central-darfur-shootings-leave-five-dead-two-injured","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.dabangasudan.org\/en\/all-news\/article\/central-darfur-shootings-leave-five-dead-two-injured","title":{"rendered":"Central Darfur shootings leave five dead, two injured"},"content":{"rendered":"

Five people, <\/strong>including two police officers, <\/strong>were shot dead and two others sustained bullet wounds in separate incidents in Central Darfur on Saturday.<\/strong><\/p>\n

In the area of Shawa in Zalingei locality, two police officers were killed by gunmen, as they tried to prevent the theft of an ambulance.<\/p>\n

The Central Darfur authorities reported in a press statement on Sunday that the ambulance had transported a woman from Nierteti to Zalingei, capital of Central Darfur, and was on its way back, when a group of gunmen intercepted the vehicle.<\/p>\n

“They immediately shot dead the two policemen guarding the ambulance,” a resident of Zalingei confirmed to this station.<\/p>\n

The Central Darfur authorities as well reported that a group of gunmen stole a police car in the area of Shawa on Friday morning. The vehicle was on its way from Nyala, capital of South Darfur, to Zalingei.<\/p>\n

Police forces managed to recover the car a few hours later.<\/p>\n

No reason<\/strong><\/p>\n

Speaking to Radio Dabanga, a witness reported that two army soldiers from the garrison east of Deleig, “suddenly and without any reason”, began to fire at seven young men in the town.<\/p>\n

“Saad Adam Ismail, the son of the mayor of Deleig was hit,” he said.<\/p>\n

“A team was formed that hunted down the culprits. In the ensuing gunfight, a member of the team was shot dead, and not much later the two soldiers as well, after their ammunition had run out.”<\/p>\n

He added that the market of Deleig remained closed on Sunday “as a precautionary measure by the locality’s security committee”.<\/p>\n

Nierteti <\/strong><\/p>\n

In Nierteti, a displaced man was shot by a member of the armed forces on Saturday morning.<\/p>\n

The incident occurred near the Southern Nierteti camp, when two army soldiers stopped Adam Idris Abaker for an unknown reason.<\/p>\n

“Abaker refused, and when they wanted to halt him by force, he took his knife, and stabbed one of the soldiers,” a camp elder reported. “His colleague then fired three bullets at him.”<\/p>\n

Abaker was taken to the hospital of Nierteti.<\/p>\n

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