Army repulse rebel attack on Abu zabad, inflicting heavy losses on them, army spokesman said
17 November, 2013Khartoum, Sudan (Sudanow) -The sudaense army on Sunday said it has repulsed an attack by the Darfuri rebel justice and equality movement on the regional town of Abu Zabad, West Kordufan state, inflicting heavy loss on the attackers and killing their leader.
“The galant armed forces have repulsed the remanats of the mercenaries inflicting huge losses on them, includign killing the rebel leader Fidail Mohamed Rahoom” Army spokesman, colonel Al Sawarmy Khalid Saad, was quoted by the official Sudan news agency as saying in a statement.
The army said the government troops destroyed eighteen rebel armoured vehicles and siezed huge number of weapons of different types, forcing the rebel to disperse in the various directions.
The spokesman said the army was now chasing the remnants of the rebels who scattered in the surrounding areas, reaffirming that the town of Abu zabad, of west kordufan state, was now under full control of the Sudanese armed forces.
The army said the rebel Justice and Equality Movement attacked the southern outskirt of the town with the hope of securing fuel and food from a local market place in the area.
The army spokesman, describing the attack as “a suicidal”, said the rebels act against armelsss civilians, was in fact “an action contravening their so-called demands for realizaing justice for the citizens.”
The army spokesmen stressed the Sudanese amy is ready to stand in the face of anyone that seeks to undermine the gains of the peopoe and their capabilities and that the army would continue, during this summer, its operation with the view to put an end to the rebellion and "pound down their strongholds around the country."
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