KHARTOUM, Jan. 2 (Xinhua) -- Two protesters were killed during demonstrations in the Sudanese capital Khartoum, the Central Committee of Sudanese Doctors (CCSD) and dissolved Health Ministry said on Sunday.
Two people were killed in Omdurman after being shot in the heads, increasing the total death toll to 56 since Oct. 25, when thousands of Sudanese citizens demonstrated in the capital and other cities to demand civilian rule, the dissolved ministry said in a statement on its Facebook page.
CCSD, a non-governmental organization, also confirmed in a statement on its Facebook page that two persons died during Sunday's rally.
Early on Sunday, protesters gathered in Khartoum's busiest bus station Sharwani, and marched to the Republican Palace.
The internet service on mobile phones was suspended on Sunday. Khartoum State's police declared in a statement that bridges connecting the three major cities of Khartoum, Khartoum Bahri, and Omdurman, Sudan's most populated city and located opposite the capital, had been closed.
Military personnel had been stationed at the entrances to the Al-Halfaya and Suba bridges, according to eyewitnesses.
Sudanese security forces also erected concrete barricades and barbed wire around the army's general command headquarters, as well as the routes leading to the presidential palace in Khartoum.
Sudan has been suffering a political crisis since General Commander of the Sudanese Armed Forces Abdel Fattah Al-Burhan declared a state of emergency on Oct. 25 and dissolved the Sovereign Council and government.
On Nov. 21, Al-Burhan and then removed Prime Minister Abdalla Hamdok signed a political declaration, which included reinstating Hamdok as prime minister, but the deal has so far failed to calm the street. Enditem