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Local officials say the incident is being investigated. It comes just more than a year after a similar incident that killed two people, which Sudan called the result of an Israeli missile strike.
The blast occured just before 8 a.m. local time on the western edge of Port Sudan town. A local resident said, "I heard a big explosion and I came out and saw a [Toyota] Prado car on fire, and two craters in the ground."
Sudanese TV said an "unknown source" had "attacked a civilian vehicle" and has broadcast images of the damaged front of the car.
Following last year's incident, Sudan said it had irrefutable evidence that Israeli attack helicopters had carried out a missile and machine gun strike. Israel refused to comment.
Sudan, which has close ties with Hamas, has long been a center of arms smuggling.