The spokesman of the Armed Forces, Col. Al-Sawarmi Khalid Saad, announced that the Armed Forces has repulsed an aggression of the rebel People\'s Movement (North Sector) on Surkom area in the Blue Nile State and killed 40 rebels, destroyed a tank and two vehicles and confiscated quantities of heavy weapons and ammunition. He said in a statement to SUNA that a number of the Armed Forces\' men have martyred. He said that the Armed Forces is pursuing the defeated rebels and carried out large combing of the area.