The Sudanese army announced the arrest of 21 officers and a number of soldiers following a failed coup attempt this morning, Tuesday, accusing the government of what it called "remnants of the former regime" of masterminding it.
Brigadier-General Al-Taher Abu Haja, media advisor to the Commander-in-Chief of the Sudanese army, said in a statement that the search is underway to arrest the rest of those involved in the coup attempt.
He stressed that the armed forces regained control of all the sites seized by the perpetrators of the attempt.
Meanwhile, the head of the Sudanese Sovereignty Council, Lieutenant-General Abdel Fattah Al-Burhan, accompanied by his deputy, Mohamed Hamdan Dagalo "Hemedti", visited the Armored Corps in Khartoum, where he met with leaders and soldiers, according to photos published by the Sovereign Council's media on Facebook.
Accusation of the previous regime
Earlier, Sudanese Prime Minister Abdullah Hamdok announced that the failed coup attempt "was the planning of the remnants of the former regime", and said that he had contacted the President of the Sovereignty Council about what happened.
He added that the coup attempt was preceded by planning by creating chaos in cities and closing roads in eastern Sudan.
Hamdok considered that what happened requires structuring civil institutions and calls for "setting things straight," as he put it.
In the same context, Sudanese Information Minister Hamza Balloul announced that the situation in the country is under control, after the military and civilian leaders of the coup attempt were arrested.
The minister accused a group of armed forces officers "from the remnants of the former regime" of making this attempt, and pledged to continue pursuing the participants. He also spoke of the surrender of the last strongholds of the coup attempt in the Shagara camp in Khartoum.
Try details
In the details of the coup attempt, a government source told Al Jazeera that at dawn today, Tuesday, soldiers entered the radio station to broadcast the coup statement, but the attempt was immediately aborted.
He assured Al Jazeera that the information about the coup attempt was available to the government yesterday evening, which helped thwart it quickly.
Earlier, a government source said that those who carried out the coup attempt were officers from armored vehicles and the two military regions of Wadi Sidna and Omdurman, adding that members of the participants in the attempt were confronted in the area of the Armored Corps.
Activists on social media circulated pictures showing the deployment of military forces and vehicles in the streets of Khartoum this morning.
Meanwhile, Al-Jazeera correspondent spoke about an emergency joint meeting between the Council of Ministers and the "Forces of Freedom and Change" coalition regarding the coup attempt.
A leader in the "Forces of Freedom and Change" told Al-Jazeera that elements of the former regime had carried out the coup attempt, and a number of them had been arrested.