Sudan: four dead in tribal clashes in Port Sudan

Four people were killed and 35 injured in tribal clashes Sunday in Port Sudan, Sudan's second largest city, according to medical sources and city officials.

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A curfew has been established there between 5 p.m. (3 p.m. GMT) and 6 a.m. (4 a.m. GMT). Troops were dispatched to neighborhoods where the clashes occurred with "permission to disperse any illegal gathering using tear gas and sticks," local authorities told reporters.

According to witnesses, Nubians returning from the South Kordofan region where they had participated in a demonstration against the new governor, entered the district of Dar al Naïm, a stronghold of the Beni Amer tribe, while a long-standing hostility opposes them.

Clashes occurred in which four people were killed and 35 injured, according to the Sudanese Medical Association.