Pakistan condemns assassination attempt on Sudanese prime minister

PM Abdalla Hamdok had survived an attack in the capital Khartoum on Monday

Pakistan has strongly condemned an assassination attempt on Sudan’s Prime Minister Abdalla Hamdok which he survived unharmed in the capital Khartoum on Monday.

“We condemn the cowardly attack targeting Prime Minister Abdallah Hamdok of Sudan and express our relief that he remained safe,” Foreign Office spokesperson Aisha Faroqui said in a statement on Tuesday.

“We pray for the good health of the prime minister and for the continued progress and prosperity of the brotherly people of Sudan,” she added.

Images on Sudan’s state television showed at least two damaged vehicles at the site of the explosion in the Kober district, northeast of the centre of Khartoum.

State-run radio Omdurman reported that automatic weapons were also used in the attack and that Hamdok was taken “to a hospital”.