Canadian military evacuation flights grounded in Sudan: sources
Two Canadian military evacuation flights are grounded in Sudan after gunfire erupted on a runway near Khartoum, sources tell Global News.
The BBC, Al Jazeera and The Guardian have reported that Sudan’s army accused the rival paramilitary Rapid Support Forces of opening fire on the Turkish aircraft as it landed at Wadi Seidna airport outside the Sudanese capital of Khartoum. Neither of Canada’s two planned evacuation flights that had been expected to depart Sudan on Friday have taken off yet, and two sources confirmed to Global News that it’s unclear at this point whether any Canadian evacuation flights will leave Khartoum on Friday.
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