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Weapons factory in
Khartoum bombed, Sudan blames Israel
Wednesday October 24, 2012 07:59:05 PM,
Agencies
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Khartoum:
Four unidentified planes bombed a weapons factory in Khartoum the
previous night, according to a Sudanese Minster. The Minister said
he suspected that the 'surprise raid' had been done by Israel.
Sudan said on Wednesday that four planes had bombed a weapons
factory in Khartoum the previous night, blaming Israeli for the
surprise raids.
“We think Israel did the bombing,” Culture and Information
Minister Ahmed Bilal Osman told a news conference.
One explosion sent detonating ammunition flying through the air
and causing panic, the official news agency and local media
reported.
Officials said there were no reports of deaths, although some
residents had suffered from smoke inhalation. They did not say
what caused the blast.
Thick black smoke covered the sky covered the sky over the Yarmouk
Military Industrial Complex in southern Khartoum. Sudan's media
reported that nearby buildings were damaged by the blast, their
roofs blown off and their windows shattered.
Defense Minister Gen. Abdul Rahim Mohamed Hussein and senior
officials visited the site of the explosion and held an emergency
meeting with top army generals while security forces sealed off
the area surrounding the complex and halted traffic.
Khartoum governor Abdul-Rahman Khedr told SUNA agency that no one
died in the explosion. He said the fire was under control and an
investigation into the cause is under way.
In 2009, a convoy carrying weapons in northeastern Sudan was
targeted from the air, killing dozens. It was widely believed that
Israel carried out the attack on weapons shipment headed for
Palestinian militants in the Gaza Strip. Israel never confirmed or
denied that. Sudanese parliamentarians denied that weapons were
transported in the area.
In 1998, the United States cruise missiles bombed a Khartoum
pharmaceutical factory suspected of links to al-Qaeda in the
aftermath of the terror group's bombings of U.S. embassies in
Kenya and Tanzania that killed 224 people.
Sudan has been a major hub for al-Qaeda militants and a transit
for weapon smugglers and African migrant traffickers.
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