Firefighters battle a fire after a drone attack on a fuel depot in Port Sudan, eastern Sudan, on May 6, 2025. (Sudanese Ministry of Culture and Information/Handout via Xinhua)

KHARTOUM, May 11 (Xinhua) -- The fire at fuel depots in Port Sudan has been brought under control and electricity has been gradually restored in the eastern Red Sea State following drone attacks in early May, Sudan's Civil Defense Forces and state-run Electricity Company said Sunday in separate statements.

"The fire at the strategic storage facilities and other affected sites in Port Sudan has been completely extinguished," Director of Sudan's Civil Defense Forces Osman Al-Atta said in a statement, adding that firefighting was challenging due to large volumes of oil stored at the affected sites.

Smoke rises after a drone attack in Port Sudan, eastern Sudan, on May 6, 2025. (Sudanese Ministry of Culture and Information/Handout via Xinhua)

"The return of electricity supply to cities in Red Sea State is underway gradually," the Electricity Company said in a brief statement posted on its official Facebook page.

Sudan has been embroiled in a devastating conflict between the Sudanese Armed Forces (SAF) and the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) since mid-April 2023, which has claimed tens of thousands of lives, with the exact toll unknown.

Recently, the RSF has intensified drone attacks on military sites and vital facilities within SAF-controlled areas.

Firefighters battle a fire after a drone attack on a fuel depot in Port Sudan, eastern Sudan, on May 5, 2025. (Sudanese Ministry of Energy and Petroleum/Handout via Xinhua)

On May 4, the RSF reportedly launched drone attacks on Port Sudan, capital of Red Sea State, for the first time, targeting a military airbase and civilian facilities. On Monday, drones attacked fuel depots in the city, completely destroying them, triggering huge explosions, and causing fires that burned for days.

On Tuesday, Sudan's Electricity Company announced that the Port Sudan power transformer station was targeted by drones in the morning, leading to a complete power outage.