UNITED NATIONS—It was rebel forces and not Sudanese government soldiers who attacked a clearly marked U.N./African Union supply convoy in Sudan's war-torn Darfur region this week, Sudan's U.N. ambassador said Wednesday.
"They were not the government," Ambassador Abdelmahmoud Abdelhalim Mohamed told reporters before a meeting of the U.N. Security Council on the situation in Darfur.
"The rebels did that. No doubt about it."
He accused the Justice and Equality Movement, a Sudanese rebel group, of carrying out the attack late Monday.
A spokeswoman for U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said Tuesday that "elements of the Sudanese armed forces" had attacked the convoy from the UN/AU Mission in Darfur, known as UNAMID.
UNAMID said one civilian Sudanese driver was in critical condition after being shot seven times in the attack.
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