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Firefighters contain blaze at Sudan Red Sea port
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KHARTOUM, 27 May 2022, (TON): The port’s director said “firefighters have contained a large blaze that erupted in a cargo area of the Sudanese Red Sea port of Suakin.”
The fire, which raged for hours, broke out in the cargo drop off area of the port sending plumes of acrid smoke into the sky.
It was not immediately clear what caused the blaze.
Port director Taha Ahmed Mokhtar said “the fire has been brought under control following the intervention of civil defense forces and port workers.”
He said “an investigation had been launched to determine the cause of the fire, and a commission set up to assess the scale of the losses.”
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