Last Updated: April 16, 2023, 06:42 IST
Heavy smoke bellows above buildings within the neighborhood of the Khartoum’s airport on April 15, 2023, amid clashes within the Sudanese capital. (AFP)
The Airbus A330 sure for Saudi Arabia ‘was uncovered to gunfire injury… with friends and crew on board’ forward of its scheduled departure to Riyadh
A passenger aircraft making ready to take off from Sudan for Saudi Arabia got here beneath fireplace on Saturday as lethal combating rocked Khartoum, the dominion’s flag service stated.
The Airbus A330 sure for Saudi Arabia “was uncovered to gunfire injury… with friends and crew on board” ahead of its scheduled departure to Riyadh, Saudia said in a statement.
“It has been confirmed that all members of the aircraft’s cabin crew have safely arrived at the Saudi Embassy in Sudan,” the assertion stated.
“Meanwhile plane flying over Sudan have returned and all different flights to and from Sudan have been suspended in an effort to protect the protection of the friends and crew.”
Clashes broke out on Saturday between Sudan’s army and paramilitaries, and the doctors’ union reported three civilian deaths, including at Khartoum’s airport in the city centre.
The Saudia assertion didn’t point out any casualties within the incident involving its plane.
The paramilitaries said they were in control of the airport as well as the presidential place, claims denied by the army.
The eruption of violence came after weeks of deepening tensions between military leader Abdel Fattah al-Burhan and his number two, paramilitary commander Mohamed Hamdan Daglo, over the planned integration of the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) into the regular army.
That was a key element of talks to finalise a deal that would return the country to civilian rule and end the crisis sparked by their 2021 coup, which triggered a deepening economic crisis in what was already one of the world’s poorest countries.
The Saudi embassy in Sudan “urges all Saudi citizens to remain at home”, the state-affiliated Al-Ekhbariya channel reported.
Both the Saudi overseas ministry and the six-member Gulf Cooperation Council, headquartered in Riyadh, issued statements of concern about Saturday’s violence.
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