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Bus conveying stranded Nigerians from Sudan reportedly catches fire
A bus conveying stranded Nigerians from Khartoum, the Sudanese capital, caught fire in the early hours of Monday, May 1.
It was gathered that 26 buses conveying the stranded Nigerians left Al Razi around 12:am on Monday for Port Sudan.
According to the Chairman, Nigerians Elders Forum in Sudan, Hashim Na’Allah, “One of the buses conveying some 50 Nigerian students from Sudan with a tag number (Katsina 1) heading to Port Sudan as part of the second batch of FGN evacuation got dam@ged due to excessive heat from one of the vehicle’s tyres.
The driver stopped the bus near an RSF checkpoint just before the tire expl%ded causing a fire to start.
40 out of the 50 passengers were later distributed to the other buses evacuating the students, while the remaining passengers spent the night where the incident happened alongside the driver at the RSF checkpoint. The students said the RSF really did their possible best to help the passengers.
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