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Roads in Sudan's capital barricaded as strike against protest deaths starts

Protesters walk in front of barricades during a two-day general strike and civil disobedience campaign in response to demonstrators' deaths against military takeover on Oct. 25, 2021 in Khartoum, Sudan January 18, 2022. REUTERS/Mohamed Nureldin Abdallah

Protesters erected barricades across roads in Sudan's capital Khartoum on Tuesday and some shops and offices were shut as a two-day general strike and civil disobedience campaign began in response to demonstrators' deaths.

Neighbourhood resistance committees and political parties called the strike after seven people were killed in Khartoum on Monday in one of the deadliest days to date in a series of demonstrations against a military takeover on Oct. 25.

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