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By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
Published: January 3, 2008
KHARTOUM, Sudan (AP) — The Sudanese authorities on Wednesday questioned witnesses in the killing of an American diplomat and his driver who were shot by gunmen in a drive-by attack here in the capital.
Sudanese officials insisted that the shooting was not a terrorist attack, but the United States Embassy said it was too soon to determine the motive.
John Granville, 33, an official for the Agency for International Development, was being driven home about 4 a.m. Tuesday when another vehicle cut off his car and opened fire before speeding off, the Sudanese Interior Ministry said.
The diplomat’s driver, Abdel-Rahman Abbas, 40, died at the scene. Mr. Granville initially survived the attack with five gunshot wounds but died after surgery, said Walter Braunohler, the public affairs officer at the American Embassy in Khartoum.
The Sudanese police said they had questioned a number of witnesses from the scene of the attack “and investigations are continuing,” the state news agency SUNA reported Wednesday.
The driver’s family said the two victims had been heading home from a New Year’s party at the home of a British diplomat. One woman who lives near the site of the attack, Nimat Malik, told a Sudanese newspaper that she rushed to help the American.
She said Mr. Granville told her, “I am dying, I need help.” She told the paper that she had some medical training and wanted to try to stop his bleeding using her robes, but that other bystanders warned that she could face trouble for tampering with evidence.
“But I saw the need to help him, so I got the police car to take him to hospital to receive medical assistance,” she told the paper.
There has been no claim of responsibility for the attack, and American and Sudanese officials investigating the shooting have not specified any suspects.
Attacks on foreigners are rare in Khartoum, where the last American diplomats were killed in 1973.
Mr. Granville was working to put in place a 2005 peace accord between Sudan’s north and south that ended more than two decades of civil war, the Agency for International Development said.
Mr. Granville’s family in Buffalo said he was committed to his work in Africa.
“John’s life was a celebration of love, hope and peace,” a family statement said. “He will be missed by many people throughout the world whose lives were touched and made better because of his care.”
Sudan’s Foreign Ministry said the attack was “isolated and has no political or ideological connotations” and pledged to bring the perpetrators to justice.
But Mr. Braunohler, the embassy spokesman, said it was “too early to tell” whether the attack was related to terrorism.
The shooting took place a day after a joint United Nations-African Union peacekeeping force took over control in the western Sudanese region of Darfur, where more than 200,000 have died in a conflict that began in 2003.
Aid workers have come under increasing attack in Darfur by the region’s armed groups, but such attacks have not been known to take place in Khartoum. Mr. Granville’s work appeared to be focused on providing aid for Sudan’s south, well away from Darfur.
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