KHARTOUM: Israeli missiles struck a military factory and killed two people in the Sudanese capital Wednesday, the government said, 18 months after alleging a similar raid by the Jewish state.

“We think Israel did the bombing,” Culture and Information Minister Ahmad Bilal Osman told a news conference. “We reserve the right to react at a place and time we choose.”

The military and Foreign Ministry in Israel, which has long accused Khartoum of serving as a base for militants from the Palestinian Islamist group Hamas, refused to comment.

Asked by Israel’s Channel 2 News station about Sudan’s accusations, Israeli Defense Minister Ehud Barak said: “There is nothing I can say about this subject.”

Osman said four radar-evading aircraft carried out an attack at around midnight Tuesday on the Yarmouk military manufacturing facility.

He said Yarmouk makes “traditional weapons.”

“The attack destroyed part of the compound infrastructure, killed two people inside and injured another who is in serious condition,” he said.

Evidence pointing to Israel was found among remnants of the explosives, he said.

The Cabinet held an urgent meeting Wednesday night but issued no statement afterward.

Outside the Cabinet office about 300 protesters denounced the United States and carried banners calling for Israel to be wiped off the earth.

“The army of Mohammad is returning,” they shouted.

Residents living near the Yarmouk factory told AFP an aircraft or missile flew over the facility shortly before the plant exploded and burst into flames.

An AFP reporter several kilometers away saw two or three fires flaring across a wide area, with heavy smoke and intermittent flashes of white light bursting above the state-owned factory.

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