The World : 6 Die in Khartoum Attacks

Gunmen killed at least six people, believed to be foreigners and including two children, in simultaneous attacks on a busy hotel and a club in the center of Khartoum, the capital of Sudan, witnesses and police said. The gunmen used machine guns, hand grenades and tear-gas bombs in their attacks on the Acropole Hotel, where scores of foreign relief workers stay, and the Sudan Club, exclusively used by British and Commonwealth citizens living in Khartoum, witnesses said. Egypt’s Middle East News Agency reported that the Khartoum airport was closed Sunday night, one hour after the attacks. Earlier, the new five-party, 27-member Cabinet of Prime Minister Sadek Mahdi was sworn in. The action ended a month of negotiations during which it was decided to include for the first time Sudan’s main Muslim fundamentalist party.