Five dead as Sudan forces try to break up sit-in: doctors' committee

Khartoum, At least five protesters were shot dead Monday as Sudan's military rulers tried to break up a sit-in outside the country's army headquarters, a doctors' committee close to the demonstrators said.

Three more people were killed "by the bullets of the military council," bringing the total to five dead, the Central Committee of Sudanese Doctors said in an update on its Facebook page, calling it a "massacre".

It also reported a "large number of critical casualties".