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Sixty people have been killed in a two-day crackdown on Sudanese protesters carried out by security forces, a doctors\u2019 committee close to the demonstrators said on Wednesday.<\/p>\n

A previous toll given by the Central Committee of Sudanese Doctors had counted 40 dead since the bloody dispersal of a weeks-long sit-in outside army headquarters in Khartoum on Monday.<\/p>\n

The committee said it held \u201cthe militias of the (military) council\u2026 responsible for this massacre.\u201d<\/p>\n

Protesters have previously singled out the Rapid Support Forces, paramilitaries with origins in the 16-year-old war in the western region of Darfur whose commander is deputy chairman on the ruling military council.<\/p>\n

Following the deadly crackdown, the military council announced it was abandoning all previous agreements reached with protest leaders on a transition to civilian rule.<\/p>\n

The protest movement in turn dismissed the generals\u2019 promise of elections within nine months instead.<\/p>\n

On Wednesday hundreds of residents of the northern suburb of Khartoum Bahri blocked off streets with barricades made from stones, and waited by them in silence, a witness told AFP.<\/p>\n

In the distance gunfire could be heard.<\/p>\n

In the early morning, sporadic shooting could be heard in the Khartoum 2 neighbourhood, an area where there are several embassies, an AFP reporter said.<\/p>\n

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