Authorities in East Nile locality, Khartoum State, announced on Monday the transfer of 112 bodies that had been buried within residential neighborhoods.
In a statement, the locality said that “112 bodies were exhumed and relocated from Al-Baraka neighborhood over the past few days.”
The locality explained that East Nile’s executive director, Murtada Yaqoub Banga, along with representatives from forensic medicine, civil defense, the Sudanese Red Crescent Society, the local health system, and local leadership, supervised the exhumation and transfer of bodies left behind by the war in the Al-Fayha administrative unit, Al-Baraka neighborhood—from public squares, streets, and facilities—to prevent any health or environmental hazards.
The transfer was carried out following directives from Khartoum State Governor Ahmed Othman Hamza.
The executive director urged all residents to report the presence of corpses or mass graves in any area within the locality.
He stressed the need to first properly bury surface-level graves, in addition to those in mass graves, and to transfer all to designated cemeteries for appropriate burial—starting with those buried in public spaces, schools, and homes due to emergency conditions.
