Sarah Widaa tells Sky News that she and her family faced 'gunfire' as they travelled to the French embassy for an evacuation, having been given just over an hour's notice to get to the building.
An Irish woman has described her dramatic escape from Sudan with her children as gunfire erupted around them - and has been left"heartbroken" as her husband remains in the country.
Describing her escape, Ms Widaa said her husband drove the family from their home in the Kafouri area of Sudan's capital Khartoum and on the way there was"gunfire" as she told her children in the car"to duck, get down on the floor".Ms Widaa said when she got to the embassy, the French"went above and beyond".
Amid the fighting, the water supply at their home had been cut off for five days and they had to instead get it from the black market."It was really difficult. There's a lot of Irish citizens still in Sudan."Ms Widaa said her husband did not join them in the evacuation as he stayed to care for his father who has diabetes and is on medication.
Describing the scene she left behind in Kafouri, Ms Widaa said the day before the violence started she took her children to get ice-creams.Buildings were burnt and cars with bullets were in the middle of the street, she said.
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