مقتل عشرين مواطنا بمنطقة سوبا بالخرطوم

Quote: KHARTOUM, May 18 (Reuters) - Four people were killed and dozens wounded when Sudanese police and soldiers clashed with refugees from southern Sudan in a camp near Khartoum on Wednesday, witnesses said. "The troops, army and police came in this morning and they shot at the civilians," said Majak Machar, a resident of the camp in Soba Aradi, about 30 km (19 miles) south of Khartoum. "They wanted to take the people to another area and the people fought them because they didn't want to go." Slums and camps surrounding the sprawling capital are home to more than two million people from all over Sudan, but most of them are southerners who have fled two decades of civil war. Machar was about 500 metres from the fighting, which he said was still going on. He said the police had killed two civilians and injured at least 10 with live fire. "The civilians then attacked the police and have killed at least two of them," he said. "They beat them with sticks." The United Nations said they had sent representatives to the area to try to calm the situation down. The governor of Khartoum was not immediately available to comment on the clashes. One U.N. official at the scene said hundreds of people were fleeing the area of fighting. "It is not possible to move around inside still," the official said. The slum areas around Khartoum have little or no running water or electricity and aid agencies have found it difficult to fund assistance to them. Khartoum authorities say they want to demolish the slums to relocate residents to permanent, planned housing plots. But the United Nations has criticised the policy, saying the relocations of the residents are not carried out in consultation with the people and they are moved to desert areas miles out of the capital where there are no services. The governor of Khartoum insists the relocations are done with the consent of the people and their leaders.