Post by acnedriver on May 2, 2023 5:32:45 GMT
British family's harrowing escape from Sudan: Mother with two toddlers endures 'terrifying' 45-minute taxi ride to evacuation airfield as shots ring out in the distance before they board last mercy flight out of warzone
A mother told of her nerve-shredding escape from war-torn Sudan with her two young daughters yesterday as the RAF airlift of Britons ended with thousands feared left behind.
Safa Yahya, 27, from Nottingham, said she endured a 'terrifying' 45-minute taxi journey to the evacuation airfield while shielding Awowa Abdalla, four, and three-year-old Amany Abdalla.
'The children were scared and crying. We could hear gunshots,' Safa told The Mail on Sunday after arriving back in Britain.
They got one of the last flights out of the capital Khartoum. 'It was such a difficult journey to the airport and then it was a very long and nervous wait to see if we could get on a flight to Cyprus and then the UK.'
The last mercy flight took off at around 6pm yesterday. It is unclear how many British citizens remain in the country, where fighting between Russian-backed rebels and government troops has cost more than 500 lives in a fortnight and sent hundreds of thousands of people fleeing over borders.
www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12029741/Mother-two-toddlers-endures-terrifying-45-minute-taxi-ride-Sudan-evacuation-airfield.html
A mother told of her nerve-shredding escape from war-torn Sudan with her two young daughters yesterday as the RAF airlift of Britons ended with thousands feared left behind.
Safa Yahya, 27, from Nottingham, said she endured a 'terrifying' 45-minute taxi journey to the evacuation airfield while shielding Awowa Abdalla, four, and three-year-old Amany Abdalla.
'The children were scared and crying. We could hear gunshots,' Safa told The Mail on Sunday after arriving back in Britain.
They got one of the last flights out of the capital Khartoum. 'It was such a difficult journey to the airport and then it was a very long and nervous wait to see if we could get on a flight to Cyprus and then the UK.'
The last mercy flight took off at around 6pm yesterday. It is unclear how many British citizens remain in the country, where fighting between Russian-backed rebels and government troops has cost more than 500 lives in a fortnight and sent hundreds of thousands of people fleeing over borders.
www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12029741/Mother-two-toddlers-endures-terrifying-45-minute-taxi-ride-Sudan-evacuation-airfield.html