Fire raged and explosions tore through the night sky early on Wednesday at the Yarmouk military factory in the Sudanese capital Khartoum, witnesses and state-linked media said. "The authorities are controlling a fire in the El Yarmouk military manufacturing facility," the Sudanese Media Centre, which is close to the security apparatus, said in a brief alert. "It is a military factory," said one witness in the southern Khartoum neighbourhood who heard "big, big explosions." Several kilometres from the scene two or three fires flaring across a wide area, with heavy smoke and intermittent flashes of white light bursting above. "I hear explosions, and now a fire truck has gone inside and soldiers are guarding the area," another area resident said. Abdul Rahman Al-Khider, the governor of Khartoum state, told official media that an explosion occurred at midnight, followed by a fire. "Preliminary investigation says the explosion happened in a store room," he said, dismissing speculation that the blaze had been caused by "other reasons." Khider said some people were hospitalised because of smoke inhalation but he gave no numbers.
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