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Breaking: Sudan: Evacuation plane shot at while landing -Turkey confirms

Turkey confirms evacuation plane landing at Wadi Seidna was shot at, reports no injuries.

Turkey’s defence ministry has confirmed that a plane landing at Wadi Seidna airstrip was shot at. A defence ministry statement on Twitter read:

Light weapons were fired on our C-130 evacuation plane, which was going to Wadi Seidna for the mission of evacuating our citizens who were stuck in Sudan, where the clashes continued. Our plane landed safely. Although there are no injuries in our personnel, necessary checks are being carried out on our aircraft.

Earlier, the Sudanese army claimed that the plane had been fired upon by the RSF, and that a member of the crew had been injured and the plane damaged.

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