One person seriously injured in Darfur’s Kalma shooting

May 2, 2016 (NYALA) – The hybrid peacekeeping mission in Darfur (UNAMID) has deployed more police patrols in Kalma camp located outside the capital of South Darfur, Nyala, following two separate gun attacks that left one person seriously injured.

The deputy chairman of IDPs and refugees association in Kalma camp Adam Abdallah on Monday told Sudan Tribune that a gunman from the Aballa tribe entered in the camp on Saturday night, ridding a camel and fired shots from his rifle, wounding two residents.

One of them was seriously injured and transported to Khartoum to receive the necessary treatment, Abdallah said.

The traditional leader added following the attack two armed vehicles stormed the camps and opened fire sporadically raising a lot of panic among the IDPs.

Kalma is the home of 150,000 IDPs who fled their villages in 2003 after a counterinsurgency campaign launched by the Sudanese army and allied militias in the region.

The camp was seen by the security services as supportive to rebel groups and source of protests. The local authorities several times threaded to dismantle it.

Abdallah said they informed the UNAMID peacekeepers of the incidents, adding they immediately arrived to the place of the attack and deployed police patrols inside and outside the camp.

A camp resident pointed an accusing finger to the Sudanese army saying the attacks were planned by the government to empty Darfur camps.

(ST)