Sudan’s Darfur rebels kill bank manager

Oct 26, 2005 (KHARTOUM) — Rebels in Sudan’s war-torn Darfur have killed the manager of the Faisal Islamic Bank in El-Fasher, the capital of North Darfur state, the official SUNA news agency reported Wednesday.

The agency said the rebels also comandeered his vehicle.

The man was identified as Ibrahim Beshir Jamaa by the pro-government Sudan Media Centre.

It claimed his attackers were three members of the Sudan Liberation Movement (SLM), one of the main rebel groups in Darfur, adding that the men shot Jamaa three times after he refused to hand them the keys to the bank.

They then fled south, according to the Centre.

It said the authorities had informed African Union observers monitoring a shaky ceasefire between government forces and rebels in the western Sudanese region about the incident late Tuesday.

(AFP/ST)