Traces of Blood at the crime scene, the white circle marks what believed to be a bullet envelope (click on the picture to enlarge)
A US diplomat has died just hours after fighting critical injuries from shots in Khartoum.
The diplomat was shot on Tuesday morning together with his Sudanese driver by an unknown gunman.
The driver died on the spot.
The Ministry of Interior annonced invistigations into the incident.
The Sudanese Ministry of Foreign Affiars has meanwhile said that the government is having no connections with the incident.
However, the Ministry said that the incident will not damage the relations between Sudan and the United States of America.
Before the US diplomat died Miraya FM spoke to an eye witness, who spoke on condition of anonymity and have this to explain "basically what happened was, we came passed by the scene, we found two people injured-the driver and the diplomat of the American embassy".
The witness added, "the driver has passed away on the site, and the American diplomat was badly injured with gun shots wounds".
Click here to listen to the full statement of the eyewitness to MIraya FM
On the 17th of January 1988 Mr. Mahdi al-Hakim, a prominent figure in the opposition to former Iraqi president Saddam Hussein, was assassinated in the lobby of the Hilton hotel in Khartoum on the hands of former Iraqi intelligence agents working out of the Iraqi embassy in the Sudanese capital; a companion of the slain Hakim, Halim Abd al-Wahhab, was wounded in the leg. Baghdad later closed its embassy in Khartoum.
In the early evening hours of 1 March 1973, eight Black September Organization gunmen seized the Saudi Arabian Embassy in Khartoum as a diplomatic reception honoring the departing United States Deputy Chief of Mission was ending. After slightly wounding the United States Ambassador and the Belgian Charge d'Affaires, the gunmen took these officials plus the United States Deputy Chief of Mission, the Saudi Arabian Ambassador and the Jordanian Charge d'Affaires hostage. In return for the freedom of the hostages, the captors demanded the release of various individuals, mostly Palestinian guerrillas, imprisoned in Jordan, Israel and the United States.
Initially, the main objective of the attack appeared to be to secure the release of Fatah/Black September leader Muhammed Awadh (aks, Abu Da'ud) from Jordanian captivity.
Negotiations with the Black September gunmen were conducted primarily by the Sudanese Ministers of Interior and of Health. The gunmen extended their deadlines three times, but when they became convinced that their demands would not be met, they killed the two United States officials and the Belgian Charge. Thirty-four hours later, the gunmen released their other hostages unharmed and surrendered to Sudanese authorities.
