KHARTOUM, May 11 (Xinhua) -- Sudan's official SUNA news agency reported on Sunday that more than 300 rebels had been arrested and60 vehicles seized or destructed following a fighting between rebel forces and army troops in northwestern Khartoum.

    Among those captured, 170 with their full arms have been seized at the Umbada quarter, according to SUNA.

    The Sudanese Armed Forces also destroyed 30 trucks belonging to the rebels who were running away from the fighting site, SUNA said, adding that some 20 trucks were seized in the village of Umm Gaffal and three trucks and 12 Kalashnikovs rifles were seized in the Umbada quarter.

    The army troops would continue the mopping-up and chasing operations against the remnants of the defeated rebel groups allover the Sudanese capital and the neighboring areas, SUNA said.

    The Sudanese government announced on Saturday evening that the army and the police had crushed the attempt of the rebels to infiltrate into the capital and carry out sabotage activities there, killing and capturing a number of the infiltrators.

    This was the first time for rebels in Darfur to enter Khartoum and launch attacks there since bloody conflicts erupted in the western Sudanese region neighboring Chad in February, 2003.