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My Profile Top News Reuters top ten news stories delivered to your inbox each day. Subscribe You are here: Home > News > International > Article Home Business & Finance News U.S. Politics International Technology Entertainment Sports Lifestyle Oddly Enough Health Science Special Coverage Video Pictures Your View The Great Debate Blogs Weather Reader Feedback Do More With Reuters RSS Widgets Mobile Podcasts Newsletters Your View Make Reuters My Homepage Partner Services CareerBuilder Affiliate Network Professional Products Support (Customer Zone) Reuters Media Financial Products About Thomson Reuters Air strike on Sudan convoy killed 119: state media Mon May 25, 2009 5:26pm EDT Email | Print | Share | Reprints | Single Page [-] Text [+] KHARTOUM (Reuters) - A total of 119 people were killed when unidentified aircraft attacked a convoy of vehicles traveling close to Sudan's border with Egypt in January, state media reported on Monday. Sudan's defense minister Abdel Rahim Mohamed Hussein made a report to parliament saying the attack on a suspected smuggling convoy was still under investigation, the state Suna news agency said. Details of the air strike on a remote road in Sudan's eastern Red Sea state first appeared in the international media in March and sparked widespread speculation. Newspaper reports in Egypt and the United States suggested the attack was aimed at arms smugglers bound for Hamas-ruled Gaza via Sudan and Egypt and was carried out by either the United States or Israel. Sudanese officials told Reuters at the time they suspected Israel, which was at the time engaged in an offensive in the Gaza Strip, with the declared aim of halting rocket attacks on Israel by Palestinian militants. The United States denied any involvement while Israeli officials refused to confirm or deny their planes or unmanned drones took part. At the time, estimates of the death toll from the attack ranged from 30 to 40. According to Suna, Hussein's report said the attack was on a convoy that was made up of 1,000 civilians involved in "a smuggling process at the border with Egypt." "(The minister) disclosed that 119 people were killed; among them were 56 smugglers and 63 smuggled persons from Ethiopian, Somali and other nationalities," read the report. Hussein said the ongoing investigation was being carried out in cooperation with Sudan's ministry of foreign affairs, security agencies and authorities from neighboring countries. Sudanese officials, speaking on condition on anonymity, told Reuters in March it was an open secret arms smugglers used the remote roads running along Sudan's red Sea coast for the smuggling of arms, contraband and refugees. Sudan remains on a U.S. list of state sponsors of terrorism, but the State Department has said it is cooperating with efforts against militant groups. A report from the U.S.-based Washington Institute for Near East Policy this year quoted Israeli sources as accusing Iran of helping Hamas smuggle arms into Gaza via Sudan and Egypt. Egypt says it does its best to stop the smuggling. (Reporting by Andrew Heavens; Editing by Charles Dick) © Thomson Reuters 2009 All rights reserved Share: Del.icio.us Digg Mixx Yahoo! Facebook LinkedIn Next Article: Riots in India after Austrian Sikh killing Afghanistan and Pakistan Fighting the Taliban A growing insurgency in Afghanistan is also spreading deep into Pakistan, making both countries crucial to U.S. war efforts in the region. Full Coverage More International News North Korea fires two short-range missiles: media | Video Pakistani soldiers battle Taliban in Swat town | Video Iran's Ahmadinejad rejects Western nuclear proposal Abbas to press Obama on Israeli settlement issue Suu Kyi to testify as Myanmar opens court again More International News... 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