SUDAN has accused Israel of carrying out air strikes against a military factory that killed two people in south Khartoum overnight, and threatened to retaliate.
"We think Israel did the bombing," Culture and Information Minister Ahmed Bilal Osman told a news conference.
"We reserve the right to react at a place and time we choose."
The foreign ministry of Israel, which has long accused Khartoum of serving as a base for militants from the Palestinian Islamist group Hamas, refused to comment.
Osman said four aircraft were involved in the attack, which occurred at about midnight (0800 AEDT Wednesday) at the Yarmouk military manufacturing facility in the south of the Sudanese capital.
Evidence pointing to Israel was found among remnants of the explosives, he said.
Residents of the area earlier told AFP an aircraft or missile flew over the facility shortly before it exploded and burst into flames.
An AFP reporter several kilometres 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 Yarmouk factory.
"I heard a sound like a plane in the sky, but I didn't see any light from a plane. Then I heard two explosions, and fire erupted in the compound," said a resident who asked to be identified only as Faize.
A woman living south of the compound also reported two initial blasts.
"I saw a plane coming from east to west and I heard explosions and there was a short length of time between the first one and the second one," she said, asking not to be named.
"Then I saw fire and our neighbour's house was hit by shrapnel, causing minor damage. The windows of my own house rattled after the second explosion."
Khartoum state governor Abdul Rahman Al-Khider told official media some people were hospitalised because of smoke inhalation but he gave no numbers.
AFP could not reach the army's spokesman, Sawarmi Khaled Saad, but he was quoted by the state's SUNA news agency as saying the fire occurred at an ammunition facility in the Yarmouk complex, spreading to a neighbouring area of grass and trees.
In 1998 Human Rights Watch said a coalition of Sudanese opposition groups had alleged that Sudan stored chemical weapons for Iraq at the Yarmouk facility but government officials strenuously denied the charges.
In August of that year United States cruise missiles struck the Al-Shifa pharmaceutical factory in North Khartoum, which the US said was linked to chemical weapons production.
Evidence for that claim later proved questionable.
The sprawling Yarmouk facility is surrounded by barbed wire and set back about two kilometres from the district's main road, meaning signs of damage were not visible later on Wednesday when an AFP reporter visited.
But at least three houses in the neighbourhood had been punctured by shrapnel which left walls and a fence with holes about 20-centimetres in diameter, the reporter said.
There was also slight damage to a Coca-Cola warehouse.
A source familiar with the factory said its main compound and storage area had not been damaged by the explosions or fire.
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