Sudan Arrests 3 in Fatal Attacks on Club, Hotel

Three men with Lebanese passports were caught while trying to get rid of weapons after attacks that killed seven people and wounded 21, including three Americans, police said Monday.

The attacks Sunday night occurred at the Acropole Hotel and nearby Sudan Club. Diplomats, relief workers and journalists frequent the hotel, and the club is reserved for nationals of Britain and Commonwealth countries.

Sudanese sources, speaking on condition of anonymity, said the U.S. Embassy advised Americans not to leave their homes. American clubs in Khartoum have been closed, they said.

Relief Workers Among Victims

Police said the dead at the Acropole included a British couple doing relief work and their two young children, plus a waiter and a Sudanese army officer. There was no word on the identity of the three Americans injured at the hotel.

An unidentified foreigner died during the attack later on the Sudan Club, according to a police statement read Monday over the government’s Radio Omdurman.

The statement said the suspects, who carried Lebanese passports but were dressed in the traditional white robes of the Sudanese when captured, were identified by witnesses to the assaults.