Sudan's ousted President Omar al-Bashir. Picture: Mohamed Nureldin Abdallah/Reuters/African News Agency (ANA)
 

 AFP

Africa / 27 April 2019, 5:42pm /

Khartoum - Assailants hurled rocks at leading members of Sudan's top Islamist party on Saturday at a meeting in Khartoum, injuring 32 of them, a party official told AFP.

The Popular Congress Party (PCP), an ally of ousted president Omar al-Bashir's regime, was holding a meeting of its shura council when it came under "attack", said Suheir Salah, its deputy undersecretary.

 

"When the participants in the meeting took a break, they came under attack from a group of people who threw rocks at them," she said, without identifying the assailants.

"Thirty-two members of the shura council have been injured. Ten cars of our party were also destroyed."

The PCP, founded by late Islamist leader Hassan Turabi, had two ministers of state in Bashir's cabinet, including Salah, and seven lawmakers in parliament.