They (the drones) were met with anti-aircraft missiles,' the source said on condition of anonymity because they were not authorised to speak to the media.

Explosions and fires rocked Sudan’s main port city and wartime capital Port Sudan on Tuesday, a witness said, part of a days-long drone assault that has torched the country’s biggest fuel depot, damaging the most important gateway for foreign aid.

War-weary civilians have looked up at a blackened sky in Port Sudan this week as the two-year war they had fled finally reached their once-safe haven on Sudan's Red Sea coast."Panic is setting in, people are terrified,