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Air strike on car in Sudan kills two: state official

06 April 2011 01:18 (UTC +04:00)

Baku-APA. An air strike on a car on Sudanâ€™s Red Sea coast killed its two passengers and destroyed the vehicle on Tuesday evening, the head of the state assembly told AFP, APA reports quoting news.yahoo.com website.
"A plane bombed a small car which was coming from Port Sudan airport to the town... There were two people in the car and both were killed. The vehicle was completely destroyed," Mohammed Tahir said by telephone.
The unidentified plane, which struck at about 10:00 pm (1900 GMT), flew in from the Red Sea, to which it then returned, Tahir added.
There was no immediate word on the identity of the two dead passengers or on whose aircraft carried out the strike.
The United States maintains a counterterrorism base in Djibouti which has been active against Al-Qaeda suspects on both sides of the Red Sea but its reported strikes against jihadist targets are all said to have involved drones.
The Palestinian Islamist group Hamas, which controls the Gaza Strip, has also long maintained a base in exile in Sudan and Israeli officials have expressed concern about suspected arms smuggling through the country.
But the Israeli military had no immediate comment on Tuesdayâ€™s air strike.