Explosions were heard across Sudan’s wartime capital Port Sudan, the third consecutive day since paramilitaries began attacking the army-aligned government’s seat of power.
An AFP correspondent reported on Tuesday loud explosions at dawn and a plume of smoke over the city coming from the direction of the port, where witnesses reported a blast in a warehouse.
Witnesses in the city’s north reported anti-aircraft missiles launched from a military base.
Earlier, a drone strike on Port Sudan’s airport grounded all flights, according to an airport official in the country’s wartime capital.
“The drone targeted the civilian section of the airport,” the official said on condition of anonymity, two days after the airport’s military base was first attacked by drone strikes the army blamed on paramilitary Rapid Support Forces.
The attacks represent a sharp escalation in fighting, as the Red Sea coastal city had become a humanitarian, transit and diplomatic hub and seat of army-aligned government, had remained untouched by ground or air attacks until this week.
On Sunday, an army base near the airport, Sudan’s only functioning international airport, had been struck by drones followed by the targeting on Monday of fuel depots in the city.
In both cases military sources blamed the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces, with whom the army has been locked in a devastating two-year war.
The attacks came after a military source said the army had destroyed an aircraft and weapons depots in the RSF-controlled Nyala airport.
Source: TRT
