Sudan’s prime minister, Abdalla Hamdok, said he survived an assassination attempt Monday after an explosion went off near his convoy in the capital of Khartoum.
Sudanese state TV said Hamdok had been heading to his office when the attack took place. He tweeted he was “safe and in good shape” following the explosion.
Hamdok also tweeted a photo of himself smiling and seated at his desk, while a TV behind him showed news coverage reporting he’d survived.
The attack highlighted the fragility of Sudan’s transition to civilian rule, almost a year after pro-democracy protesters forced the military to remove autocratic President Omar al-Bashir from power and replace him with a joint military-civilian government, which has promised to hold elections in three years.
Faisal Saleh, Sudan’s information minister and interim government spokesman, said the attack was carried out using both explosives and firearms, and that a security officer was lightly wounded.
No one immediately claimed responsibility for the attack.
Hamdok, in his brief statement on Twitter, said, “Rest assured that what happened today will not stand in the way of our transition; instead it is an additional push to the wheel of change in Sudan.”
