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Bomb attack at Sudan wedding party kills two children, wounds 50

Two children were killed and 50 other people wounded when an assailant threw a bomb at a wedding party in Khartoum, Sudan, on Tuesday night. PHOTO | FILE | NATION MEDIA GROUP

By  AFP

Two children were killed and 50 other people wounded when an assailant threw a bomb at a wedding party in Khartoum, Sudan, police said Wednesday.

In an apparently personal affair, the bomber struck in the southern district of Mayo, police spokesman General Hashim Abdelrahim said in a statement to AFP.

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