KHARTOUM, May 7 (Xinhua) -- Sudanese Interior Minister Ibrahim Mahmoud Hamid disclosed that the Sudanese army killed 60 rebels of the revolutionary front which attempted to attack Um Braimbita area in South Kordofan State on Sunday, Khartoum's Al Ray Al Am daily reported Tuesday.

The paper quoted the minister as saying that "the Sudanese Armed Forces have killed 60 rebels and confiscated 6 armored vehicles and great amount of ammunition from the rebels."

 

He explained that the army found big sums of money in the pockets of the rebels in addition to mobile phones that the rebels looted from the citizens, the report said.

Last Sunday the Sudanese army announced that it repulsed a fresh attack by the rebels in Um Braimbita area in South Kordofan state.

South Kordofan and Blue Nile states have been witnessing armed clashes between the Sudanese army and the Sudan People's Liberation Movement/northern sector since 2011 after South Sudan's independence.