Gen. Abdel-Fattah Burhan, survived a drone attack on a military graduation ceremony that killed five people in the east of the country,Sudan’s military
The military said in a statement Wednesday that the attack by two drones took place in Gebeit , a town in eastern Sudan , after the ceremony ended.
Burhane, who was attending the ceremony, was not injured, according to Lt. Col. Hassan Ibrahim of the military spokesman’s office.
Sudan has been torn apart by war for more than a year between the army and a powerful paramilitary group, the Rapid Support Forces . With the fighting taking place in the capital, Khartoum , military leaders are operating mainly in the east of the country, near the Red Sea coast.
Videos posted showed several people running on a dusty road at the time of the drone attack, while other footage shows graduation ceremony attendees apparently looking skyward as the drone struck.
The assassination attempt comes nearly a week after the head of Sudan’s paramilitary forces said he planned to attend ceasefire talks in Switzerland next month, hosted by the United States and Saudi Arabia .
