ANKARA, Turkey (AP) — The son of Sudanese army chief Abdel Fattah Burhan died in hospital on Friday, two months after he was seriously injured in a motorcycle accident in the Turkish capital Ankara, the news agency reported Turkish state.
Mohammed Fattah Burhan Rahman had been being treated in an Ankara hospital since the March 6 accident in which his motorbike collided with a vehicle on the outskirts of the city, Anadolu Agency reported.
Private news agency DHA said he was thrown several meters from his motorbike by the impact of the collision and was being treated in the hospital’s intensive care unit.
Burhan, Sudan’s de facto leader, and other family members were informed about the death, DHA said.
There was no immediate statement from Turkish authorities. Sudanese embassy officials could not be reached for comment.
Sudan descended into chaos in mid-April 2023 when long-running tensions between its military, led by Burhan, and the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces commanded by Mohammed Hamdan Dagalo erupted into street battles in the capital, Khartoum. The fighting spread to other parts of the country, especially urban areas and the western region of Darfur.
Earlier this year, the son of the president of Somalia was convicted of “causing death through negligence” by a Turkish court, after a diplomatic car he was driving ran over a motorbike courier on a highway in Istanbul. The court sentenced him to 2 and a half years in prison, but later commuted the sentence to a fine.
