A Turkish evacuation plane was shot at by the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces, Sudan’s army has said.
Turkey’s defence ministry confirmed that an evacuation plane had been fired at and said there were no injuries. The RSF denied firing at the plane and said the army was “spreading lies”.
“Our forces have remained strictly committed to the humanitarian truce that we agreed upon since midnight, and it is not true that we targeted any aircraft in the sky of Wadi Seyidna in Omdurman,” the RSF said in a statement.
Last night the two warring factions agreed to a three-day extension to a ceasefire, as the UK confirmed that almost 900 Britons have been evacuated from the country.
It came just hours after the UK said it was “pushing hard” for an extension to the ceasefire in Sudan to get more Britons home.
James Cleverly told the MPs in the House of Commons: “With regard to an extension of the ceasefire, we are pushing hard for that and we are amplifying the voices of those in the region, and more widely, that this is in the best interests of Sudan.”
