KHARTOUM, Sudan
American investigators will help
Sudan with enquiries into a failed assassination attempt against Prime Minister
Abdalla Hamdok, the Sudanese culture and information minister said Wednesday.
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| Security personnel stand near a car damaged after an explosion targeting the motorcade of Sudan's Prime Minister Abdallah Hamdok near the Kober Bridge in Khartoum, Sudan March 9 |
A Federal Bureau of Investigation
team "arrived this morning and will join Sudanese investigators",
Faisal Mohammed Saleh told journalists.
Sudan's
post-uprising leader Hamdok escaped unharmed Monday after an assassination
attempt using explosives targeted his convoy in the capital Khartoum.
The
American investigators will bring relevant "expertise and techniques for
this kind of case," Saleh said.
The
US team comprises three people, local media cited the interior ministry as
saying.
Sudan's
security and defence council met Monday evening and called for foreign
assistance.
There
has been no claim of responsibility for the attack.
Sudanese
authorities have made several arrests, including of foreigners, Saleh said,
without giving further detail.
On
Tuesday, the interior ministry said the blast was caused by an improvised
explosive device placed on the route taken by Hamdok's convoy.
After
the fall of longstanding ruler Omar al-Bashir in April 2019, Hamdok, a seasoned
economist, took the reins of a transitional government last August.
He
heads a sovereign council composed of civilian and military figures, tasked
with overseeing Sudan's transition to civilian rule over three years, with the
eventual goal of free elections.
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