CAIRO: Sudan's Prime Minister Abdallah Hamdok is under house arrest, Sky News Arabia reported on Monday citing his office.

A military force took the prime minister to "an unknown location", said another TV channel, Al-Arabiya, citing sources close to Hamdok.

(Reporting by Moataz Abdel Rahiem; Writing by Enas Alashray; Editing by Christopher Cushing and Giles Elgood)