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Sudanese protestors throw stones at a petrol station in Khartoum's twin city
of Omdurman during a demonstration after the government announced
steep price rises for petroleum products. (AFP)
Fresh riots have erupted in Sudan on Thursday as protests sparked by a government decision to scrap fuel subsidies raged into a fourth day and medics reported an overall toll of 29 people killed.
According to BBC News, the director of Omdurman hospital told the BBC his staff had seen 21 bodies. Three others died at another hospital.
Thursday's rioting erupted in the Inqaz district south of Khartoum where at least 3 000 people marched on the main road, burned tyres and hurled stones at passing cars, witnesses said.
Police fired tear gas at protesters.
"Freedom, freedom!" and "The people want the fall of the regime!" shouted protesters, many of them students, borrowing the refrain of the Arab Spring protests which toppled several governments in 2011.
"We came out, we came out against those who have stolen our sweat," they chanted, according to a video uploaded on YouTube.
Sudan's foreign minister, Ali Karti is expected to address the UN tomorrow.
