American investigators will help Sudan with enquiries into a failed assassination attempt against Prime Minister Abdalla Hamdok, the Sudanese culture and information minister said on Wednesday.
A Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) team “arrived this morning and will join Sudanese investigators”, Faisal Mohammed Saleh told journalists.
Sudan’s post-uprising leader Hamdok escaped unharmed on 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.
Images on state television showed at least two damaged vehicles at the site of the blast in the Kober district, northeast of the centre of Khartoum. (Ashraf Shazly/AFP)
The US team comprises three people, local media cited the interior ministry as saying.
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Sudan’s security and defence council met on 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.