Plane bombs car near Port Sudan, two dead

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Plane bombs car near Port Sudan, two dead

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KHARTOUM (Reuters) – An unidentified plane bombed a car near the airport in

Sudan's main port city of Port Sudan on Tuesday, killing two people, a state

government official told Reuters.

The aircraft flew in from the Red Sea but it was not clear to whom it belonged,

Ahmed Tahir, the speaker of parliament in the Red Sea state where the port city

is located, told Reuters.

" We heard three loud explosions, " a source at Port Sudan airport told Reuters.

" We went outside to see what was happening and eye witnesses told us they saw

two helicopters which looked liked Apaches flying past. "

Separately, a witness at the scene of the incident told Reuters he could see two

burned bodies -- one inside a car and the other lying on the ground outside the

vehicle.

The Sudanese Media Center, a news agency linked to Sudan's state security

apparatus, said cars were struck in a bombing by an unknown plane but gave no

further details.

Security forces at the scene were preventing people from getting close to the

site, a witness told Reuters from the site of the attack about 20 km outside

Port Sudan city.

In January 2009, a convoy of arms smugglers was hit by unidentified aircraft in

Sudan's eastern Red Sea state according to Sudanese authorities, a strike that

some reports said may have been carried out by Israel to stop weapons bound for

Gaza.

A total of 119 people were killed in that strike near Sudan's border with Egypt,

according to state media.

(Reporting by Opheera McDoom and Khaled Abdelaziz; writing by Deepa Babington,

Editing by Louise Ireland)