Latest Sudan Evacuation Update: Bus conveying stranded Nigerians from Sudan catches fire
On Monday morning, one of the buses transporting stranded Nigerians from Khartoum, the capital of Sudan, to Port Sudan, where they will enter Saudi Arabia, caught fire.
Around midnight on Monday, twenty-six buses carrying the stranded Nigerians left Al Razi for Port Sudan.
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“One of the buses transporting approximately 50 Nigerian students from Sudan with the tag number (Katsina 1) to Port Sudan as part of the second batch of FGN evacuation was damaged as a result of excessive tyre heat.
“Dr. Hashim Idris Na’Allah, chairman of the Nigerian Elders’ Forum in Sudan, was one of the fifty students (49 males and 1 female) aboard the aforementioned bus.
“The incident occurred at approximately 2:30 a.m.
“The driver stopped the bus near an RSF checkpoint just before a tyre exploded, igniting a fire.
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“Every passenger escaped unharmed.
“Fourty of the fifty passengers were later distributed to the other buses evacuating the students, while the remaining passengers spent the night alongside the driver at the RSF checkpoint, where the incident occurred.
“The students reported that the RSF did their utmost to assist the passengers and offered them tea in the morning prior to their departure,” Sudanese national Sani Aliyu revealed.
Ejes Gist News Nigeria has learned that they have continued on to Port Sudan.
As a result of the difficulties in transporting the initial group of evacuees across Egypt’s borders, over a thousand Nigerians are being evacuated via the Port Sudan route.
Five days have passed since the stranded Nigerians were denied entry into Egypt, where flights are already waiting to transport them back home.
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