KHARTOUM, (MILLAT/APP/AFP): Sudanese security forces found
bomb-making materials in a Khartoum apartment they raided on
Sunday after an early morning explosion wounded a man who is
now on the run, police said.
Members of the National Intelligence and Security Service
(NISS) and police raided the flat in the south Khartoum residential
district of Arkawiet after local police reported a blast in the
building at around 2:00 am (23:00 GMT Saturday).
“During the raid, materials used to detonate high intensity blasts
were found, along with some foreign passports,” a police statement said.
Further investigation revealed that a man had been wounded by the
blast, which happened while he was allegedly assembling the explosives.
“He went to a nearby hospital but the hospital refused to treat him
until he informed the police. He left the hospital and is now on the run,” the statement said.
Police were hunting for him and for others, it said, without
elaborating either on the fugitive or on the passports that were found.
Earlier on Sunday, dozens of policemen and security agents cordoned
off the area, and an AFP correspondent reported that security agents emerged from the building with plastic bags containing materials found in the apartment.
Residents said that apart from Sudanese families, many Egyptians and
Syrians also lived in the area.
Sudan is home to tens of thousands of Syrians who have arrived in the
east African country since a brutal civil war erupted in Syria in 2011.