It has emerged that an arms convoy travelling in northeastern Sudan in January was attacked and destroyed en route to its reported destination: the Gaza Strip. The airstrike occurred, northwest of the town of Port Sudan and just south of the Egyptian border, according to press reports initially emerging from Sudan and Egypt. Seventeen trucks laden with arms were destroyed, causing a reported 39 fatalities that Sudan's state minister for highways, Mabrouk Mubarak Saleem, said on 24 March included "Sudanese, Eritreans and Ethiopians". Sudanese Foreign Minister Deng Alor, speaking from Cairo, said the government had "no specific information about such an attack taking place".
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