Northern and southern Sudanese leaders called for calm on Wednesday during a third day of clashes in the capital that have killed at least 84 people since the death of former southern rebel John Garang.
Violence in Khartoum erupted on Monday when angry southerners took to the streets after the official announcement of the death in a helicopter crash of Garang, who fought the northern government for two decades before making peace.
"There are quite a number of casualties and it's quite serious," UN spokeswoman Radhia Achouri told Reuters.
"Peace is being jeopardised in the short run," the top UN envoy in Sudan, Jan Pronk, said.
The violence is the worst in Khartoum in years. But many streets in the capital had emptied, except for police and soldiers on patrol, as a 9 pm (1800 GMT) curfew approached.
The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) said it counted 84 bodies in a morgue, all killed since Monday.
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