Al-Qurashi was shot by police, during an invasion of student accommodation by police force (the students accommodation known as barracks because it once was the accommodation of the British army when Sudan was still a colony). Al-Qurashi his accommodation called El-Dander which changed to El-Gorashy after his death and till today (today the former barracks have been the female student dormitories since 1997). There was another student killed by police before El-Gorashy on 25 November 1964) the student name Babekir Hussan Abedel el- hafizArabic بابكر حسن عبد لحفيظ Baabekir originally from Omdurman lived in quarter called Wad Droo