Two Egyptian drivers were killed as a result of gunfire in Khartoum...and action from the Foreign Ministry

Two Egyptian drivers were killed in a shooting in the Sudanese capital, Khartoum, according to the Egyptian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, which said it was "following with great interest the unfortunate incident."

The ministry said, in a statement on Monday evening, that a gunman opened fire “at a number of Egyptian truck drivers, where two drivers were killed, while another was injured.”

The statement stated that Minister Badr Abdel-Ati assigned the Egyptian ambassador to Khartoum “to quickly communicate with the Sudanese authorities to determine the circumstances of the accident and check on the injured citizen, as well as to take all necessary measures to transport the deceased to the homeland as quickly as possible.”

Foreign Ministry spokesman Ambassador Nader Zaki said, "The Egyptian ambassador to Sudan, Yasser Sorour, made immediate contacts with the Sudanese authorities, who reported that they were able to arrest the perpetrator of the crime." Sorour also met with "the governor of Khartoum, who came specifically to offer condolences and check on the health of the injured citizen, as the medical staff who are treating him confirmed that he needs urgent surgery."

This comes at a time when the Transitional Sovereignty Council in Sudan announced, on Monday, the formation of a fact-finding committee to investigate what it described as a “painful accident” to which a number of Sudanese miners were exposed in the border region between Sudan and Egypt, according to an official statement.

For its part, the Egyptian army said that it had implemented the third phase of its campaign against what it described as “illegal prospecting” for gold ore in the country’s eastern desert, while Sudanese reports stated that dozens of Sudanese miners were killed and others were injured as a result of “air strikes.”