A travel writer from Massachusetts is one of thousands of Americans stranded in Sudan as violence threatens to explode into civil war. At least 420 people have been killed in the fighting, the WHO says.
“There were power cuts, no running water, no access to cash. So I left with only $20,” Lakshmi Parthasarathy, 32, told NBC News on Tuesday after hitchhiking south.
Civilians described frenzied efforts to escape sporadic fighting in the capital, Khartoum, despite a new“The city was complete mayhem when I left,” Parthasarathy, who is from New Bedford, said via video message from a school that’s been turned into a little refugee camp near Khartoum. Rides to the evacuation ports are going for thousands of dollars, she said.
There was a “high risk of biological hazard” after one side in the fighting seized a laboratory, the agency's representative in Sudan said Tuesday, according to Reuters. A stream of foreign powers continued with rescues, often involving military special forces, airlifts and convoys driving past fighters from both sides.
“I don’t know what will happen in Sudan,” said Mohamed, who’s a Saudi national, adding that he was afraid of losing his family. His sister, Aya Mohamed, a U.S. citizen, had left the two children with her sister the day before the clashes erupted, he said.When approached for comment on their case, the State Department said, “The U.S. Department of State and our embassies and consulates abroad have no higher priority than the safety and security of U.S.
“There is no way to go outside of Khartoum," said Musa Osman El Sayeed, describing his trepidation about making the perilous journey with his four children and wife."You can be shot, everything can happen to you in the street," he said.
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