In KHARTOUM story headlined "Six die in tribal riots in Sudan Red Sea port city", please read in third paragraph ...dusk-to-dawn curfew... instead of ...dawn-to-dusk curfew... (correcting period).

A corrected version follows.

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KHARTOUM, Jan 7 (Reuters) - Six people were killed in fresh tribal rioting in Sudan's Red Sea town of Port Sudan, a day after officials imposed a state of emergency and curfew to halt the clashes, newspapers said on Tuesday.

Demonstrations clogged the main streets of the port city on Monday, and protesters besieged a university and attacked a hotel and a market, the daily Akhbar al-Youm reported.

The clashes were sparked by the murder of the leader of the local Beni Amir tribe by a member of the rival Hadandawi tribe on Sunday. The governor of Red Sea state imposed a dusk-to-dawn curfew, while federal ministers belonging to the two tribes appealed for calm.

Three of those killed in the violence were members of the Beni Amir, while the other three were from the Hadandawi tribe. Authorities have arrested seven people, papers said.

The governor, Hatim al-Wasila, said the violence had not affected shipping in Port Sudan, the country's main port which is located some 700 km (450 miles) northwest of Khartoum, the daily al-Ayam reported.

An energy ministry official said on Monday the clashes had not caused any disruption to oil exports. Sudan has been an oil exporter since 1999.

The Beni Amir and Hadandawi tribes, the main ethnic groups in the Red Sea and Kassala states of resource-scarce eastern Sudan, have been rivals for centuries.