A UK-born student said escaping Sudan is like being in the horror film 'The Purge'. 'The prisoners got released from prison yesterday. So there’s murderers and people who’ve committed manslaughter and thieves everywhere.'
are having to run a terrifying gauntlet of murderers and thieves running rampant, gunfire in the streets and roads full of tanks., is a third year medical student at National University in the capital Khartoum.
Ms Eltayeb said: ‘People have mentioned that they’ve been looted, and they took their stuff and their money, and they were just left in the middle of nowhere.Smoke fills the sky in Khartoum, Sudan, near Doha International Hospital on Friday He said ‘over a thousand’ UK citizens in Sudan have been contacted about evacuation plans, with officials from the Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office having spoken to hundreds directly already.
Asked about the violence she has witnessed first-hand, Ms Eltayeb said: ‘I haven’t seen anything but my mum has told me our family house has been bombed. ‘I’m trying to get there. But the problem is the vehicles that we have have no gas, and the petrol stations are empty,’ she said.
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