The bus carrying Nigerian students caught fire in Sudan
The bus carrying Nigerian students caught fire in Sudan
Still, sources say that none of the passengers were hurt in the crash.
Early in the morning, a fire broke out on a bus that was taking Nigerians who were stuck in Khartoum, the capital city of Sudan, to Port Sudan, where they would be taken to Saudi Arabia. Monday.
At about 12 a.m. on Monday, 26 trucks with trapped Nigerians were leaving Al Razi for Port Sudan.
The Daily Trust said that one of the buses bringing about 50 Nigerian students from Sudan (Katsina 1) is on its way to Port Sudan as part of the second round of citizen evacuations by the Federal Government of Nigeria. But she had trouble because one of the car's tyres was so hot.
One of the students on the bus was Dr. Hashim Idris Na'Allah, who is the head of the Elders Association of Nigeria in Sudan. There were 50 students on the bus, 49 men and 1 woman.
This happened around 2:30 in the morning Sudanese time.
This happened around 2:30 in the morning Sudanese time.
Before the tyre blew out and started the fire, the bus driver pulled over near an RSF station.
However, none of the people on board were hurt.
At the RSF checkpoint where the incident happened, the other passengers spent the night with the driver, but 40 of the 50 passengers were separated from the other bus bringing the students.
Sani Aliyu, who is in Sudan, said that the students told him that the RSF staff "really tried their best to help the passengers and gave them cups of tea in the morning before they left."
Daily Trust says that they have kept going to Port Sudan since then.
Because the first people to leave Egypt ran into problems, more than 1,000 Nigerians left through Port Sudan.
Egypt's officials wouldn't let the trapped Nigerians into the country, where planes were already waiting to take them back to Nigeria. Instead, they had to wait at the country's borders for five days.