A/HRC/42/63 Khartoum. At least two protesters were reportedly killed and eight more were injured in violence that day. According to reports and communications the Independent Expert received from sources on the ground, security forces then followed some protesters into the Omdurman hospital, raided its emergency response unit, and allegedly fired tear gas and live ammunition inside the premises of the hospital. Armed men in civilian clothes were reportedly seen alongside riot police chasing the protesters. 33. The use of force by security forces and the 9 January attack on the Omdurman hospital were roundly condemned by the country’s Minister of Health, by the national commission for human rights and by Sudanese doctors unions, among other civil society organizations. A spokesperson for the national police, speaking to the Sudan News Agency, said that the police had registered three deaths and a number of injuries that had occurred during the protests that took place in Omdurman on 9 January, and that the police were investigating the incident.11 34. Attacks by security forces continued in the following days. On 13 January, security forces similarly entered and fired shots inside Bahri Teaching Hospital and Haj al-Safi Hospital. On 17 January, a doctor, Babiker Abdul Hamid, was reportedly shot dead by security forces in Khartoum while providing emergency care for wounded protesters. The National Intelligence and Security Service denied this report, claiming that the doctor had been shot by a protester. 35. On 8 and 9 April, use of force by the National Intelligence and Security Service to break up a mass sit-in in front of the army headquarters in Khartoum, and related clashes with army officers, reportedly resulted in at least 21 people killed and 153 injured, according to the Central Committee of Sudanese Doctors. The Committee’s casualty figures included the killings of 16 protesters and 5 officers of the Sudanese army. 36. Security forces and protesters also clashed in a series of incidents in Darfur and Southern Kordofan in the weeks following the removal of President al-Bashir. On 21 April in Kutum, North Darfur, protesters reportedly surrounded the office of the National Intelligence and Security Services and committed acts of destruction of property. They were met with force by security forces, who allegedly fired indiscriminately into the crowds, resulting in the injury of a least seven civilians, including minors. The same day, violence between protesters and forces of the National Intelligence and Security Services in Alari, Southern Kordofan, resulted in nine members of the National Intelligence and Security Services killed, and four civilians injured, according to reports from the United Nations Interim Security Force for Abyei. 37. According to information received by the Independent Expert, on 2 May, two people were allegedly killed and five others injured as a result of the use of live ammunition by the Rapid Support Forces to disperse young people protesting against their presence in Masteri town in East Darfur. 38. The Independent Expert received information that security forces in Nyala, South Darfur, had reportedly used excessive force, including live ammunition, on 4 May to disperse some two thousand people engaged in protests to demand improved services at an encampment for internally displaced persons at Otash, within the town’s boundaries. Several protesters reportedly sustained gunshot wounds. Riot police also allegedly raided the local hospital’s emergency section. In total, at least six people were wounded by security forces during the 4 May events in Nyala, according to reports received. The Governor of South Darfur imposed a statewide ban on protests following the incident. 39. Reports indicated that on 13 May, in Khartoum, security forces, allegedly wearing the uniforms and using the vehicles of the Rapid Support Forces, used live ammunition on protesters, killing six people, including an army officer. Two days later, members of the Rapid Support Forces reportedly fired live ammunition at protesters in an attempt to prevent the removal of roadblocks around the army headquarters. Reports indicated that at least 6 people had been killed and about 100 injured. 11 8 “Anti-govt protesters killed in Omdurman”, Africanews, 10 January 2019.