Five men condemned to death for murder in west Sudan

KHARTOUM, Nov 13 (AFP) — A criminal court in western Sudan sentenced five men to death by hanging after it found them guilty of murder, a newspaper said Thursday.

In a report from Nyala, capital of South Darfur State, the independent daily Al-Sahafa said the convicted men were from the Missairiyah tribe and their victim from the Ta’ayshah tribe, both from Arab stock.

The man was killed in a quarrel.

The convicts were given a week to appeal the ruling which was handed down Wednesday. The court acquitted six other men involved in the case for lack of evidence, the paper said.