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Saturday's casualty count

The Sudan doctors' committee has shared preliminary casualty numbers for the day so far and the "brutal violence of the militias of the military coup in their defeated attempts to suppress the million".

Al-Qadarif state, east Sudan, casualties include:

- Two injured as a result of tear gas canisters
- Three injuries sustained as a result of being hit with batons and a military vehicle
- One case of suffocation by tear gas

The city of Omdurman, casualties include:

- Two dead
- 12 wounded, two of whom were shot in the chest and abdomen. 
- Seven wounded in Omdurman Hospital, three cases of bullet wounds, one of whom is an unstable condition.

Khartoum North, casualties include:

- One person hit with three bullets, one in the chest and two in the hand, in a stable condition
- 61 wounded, mostly by tear gas.