“Russia Today” news agency quoted the Sudanese Armed Forces as saying that the Rapid Support Forces committed several violations against diplomatic missions, including the shooting attack on the French embassy convoy, which led to the disruption of the evacuation process.
Today, the Sudanese Armed Forces said, “The Rapid Support militia stole the diplomatic vehicle of the Malaysian ambassador, and assaulted today the convoy of the Qatari embassy heading to Port Sudan and looted their money, all their bags and mobile phones, and attacked the convoy of the French embassy by shooting, which led to their return and disruption of the evacuation operation.”
It pointed out that “one of the French was wounded by a sniper’s bullet, in addition to the attack on the mission’s headquarters.”
In turn, the Rapid Support Forces announced that its forces “were subjected to an air attack in the morning during the evacuation of French nationals from their country’s embassy, passing through Bahri to Omdurman, which endangered the lives of French nationals,” stressing that “one of the French nationals was injured and the rest survived.”
They pointed out that “in order to preserve the safety of the French nationals, they were forced to return the convoy to the starting point.”
Source: National News Agency – Lebanon