Sudanese Armed Forces: ‘Two drones shot down over River Nile state’
Wreckage of one of the drones that fell on El Gedaref on April 9 (File photo: Supplied)
The Sudanese Armed Forces (SAF) claim to have shot down drones over Shendi in River Nile state yesterday. Widely circulated videos show the drones flying above Shendi, while witnesses from the town told Radio Dabanga that four drones were spotted, “all of which were shot down”. While the precise number of drones involved is difficult to verify, the command of the SAF Third Infantry Division in Shendi says that it managed to shoot down two drones yesterday.
In a statement published by the SAF publicity channel yesterday, the head of the guidance and services division, the military information officer of the of the Shendi infantry, Col Hafiz Fathelrahman, says that the drones, which he describes as hostile, were dealt with by anti-aircraft weaponry within the command of the division. This led to debris falling on the buildings of the division’s airfield without causing any damage or injury to lives or equipment. The colonel explains that they were able to deal with two drones within an hour of each other.
In Atbara in Sudan’s River Nile state, at least five people died and others were injured in an apparent ‘drone attack’, which targeted a Ramadan iftar by the Sudanese Armed Forces (SAF) affiliated El Baraa bin Malik Brigade on March 2.
Security officers in Sudan’s El Gedaref are probing a drone attack that targeted the military base of the Security and Intelligence Services in El Fao, that was struck and damaged by two drones in an attack two weeks ago. The results of the investigations have not yet been released.
Aerial bombardment
The Wad Madani Resistance Committees say that the Sudanese Air Force launched an air strike on the town of Rufaa in El Gezira on Monday, which led to the injury of several people.
In Khartoum, the pace of military operations decreased over the past two days, while on Monday evening, a huge fire broke out in a building in the Firdous neighbourhood, in the eastern part of the capital Khartoum, which is under control of the Rapid Support Forces.
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