A UN security briefing obtained by Reuters on Wednesday morning reported around 20 deaths overnight.
Violence in the capital erupted on Monday when angry southerners took to the streets after the official announcement that former southern rebel leader and First Vice-President John Garang had died in a helicopter crash.
Police said on Tuesday that 46 people had been killed in the violence.
William Ezekiel, editor of the daily Khartoum Monitor with close ties to the southern community, on Wednesday said
residents reported that 47 were killed overnight in the Khartoum suburb of Mamoura and 15 were killed in the district of Kalakla, in the south of the city where violence had also been reported on Tuesday.
Those reports could not immediately be verified.
Ezekiel quoted residents as saying that gunshots and sirens could still be heard in some suburbs of Khartoum.
Property damage
Aljazeera's correspondent in Khartoum, Al-Tahir al-Mardi, reports that police intensified their patrols of the town with armoured vehicles mounted with machine guns.
Many saw the police deployment as a too late move by the Sudanese authorities, adds al-Mardi.
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The riots caused extensive damage to public and private property |
The riots resulted in destruction of public and private property along with anger among the Sudanese people.
"This is vengeance that has nothing to do with sadness, an aggression against an innocent citizen. I do have the right of citizenship in equal terms with those who had committed such acts," a Sudanese man whose home has been severely damaged told Aljazeera.
"Garang has died in South Sudan," another resident said. "We have lived here in peace. They broke into schools, terrified our children and even tore the clothes off from our little girls.".
The incidents have turned the country's mourning into a stand-off that some Sudanese fear will cause a rift between north and south Sudan, al-Mardi reported.
Call for calm
The new leader of southern Sudan met with top US and South African envoys on Wednesday as part of diplomatic moves to maintain the country’s fragile peace accord.
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Salva Kiir was appointed leader of the SPLM |
Salva Kiir, who took over the Sudan People's Liberation Movement (SPLM) after Garang's death, also pledged to fight for peace in the western region of Darfur.