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Farmer slain in East Jebel Marra, displaced shot in West Darfur

EAST JEBEL MARRA / WEST DARFUR (15 Oct.) - Militiamen shot dead a farmer in the area of Dabanga in East Jebel Marra on Wednesday. On the same day, two residents of Riyadh camp for the displaced in West Darfur were seriously injured.

Speaking to Radio Dabanga, a relative of the victim said that “seven government-backed militiamen shot at Juma Adam Abdelrahman, while he was working on his farm on Wednesday afternoon”. “He died on the spot. The killers then took his money and belongings, and left.”

Drunken soldier

In El Riyadh camp, El Geneina locality, West Darfur, a man and a woman were seriously injured, when a drunken army soldier fired at the camp, a camp elder told Radio Dabanga. They had to be transferred to El Geneina Hospital for urgent treatment.