The AFP news agency's reporter on the spot testifies to high explosions at dawn, followed by columns of thick smoke towards the sky above the Sudanese city. Pictures show flames shooting up under an enormous column of black smoke.
The drone was aimed at the civilian part of the airport, says an official at the airport.
Another drone is said to have hit a hotel in central Port Sudan. Both are located near the residence of the army chief, Abd al-Fattah al-Burhan. A third drone attack was directed at a fuel depot near the harbor, according to a military source.
The attacks come two days after a drone attack on a military base at Port Sudan's airport, an attack that the war-torn country's army blamed on the paramilitary RSF. The regular army and the RSF militia, which has formed its own political administration together with allied groups, have been waging a bloody war since 2023.
The metropolis of Port Sudan, which serves as a kind of alternative capital for the army-backed government, which moved there from the actual capital Khartum when the civil war broke out. The UN has also moved its headquarters to Port Sudan, as have hundreds of thousands of civilians.
