At least 83 people were reportedly killed and 160 others injured in a sporadic violent attack that took location at El Geneina, the capital city of Sudan's West Darfur state, according to authorities. "The death toll from the bloody events in El Geneina has climbed to 83 and the injured to 160 since Saturday," Xinhua news agency quoted the Doctors' Committee of West Darfur state as saying in a statement on Sunday.
The deadly clashes grew out of a fistfight Friday between two people in a camp for displaced people in Genena, the provincial capital. An Arab man was stabbed to death and his family, from the Arab Rizeigat tribe, attacked the people in the Krinding camp and other areas Saturday.
In the meantime, Sudan's Security and Defense Council on Sunday decided to send security reinforcements to West Darfur to protect the citizens and vital utilities there, according to a statement by Sudan's Sovereign Council.
The council, chaired by the Chairman of the Sovereign Council Abdel Fattah Al-Burhan, held an emergency meeting on Sunday to discuss the violent events which took place in El Geneina on Saturday, the statement noted.
West Darfur State's Governor Mohamed Abdalla Al Doma decided to designate the regular forces to end the violence started by a fight between two citizens in El Geneina, in which one of them was killed.
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