According to the Saudi Arabian foreign ministry, Indians were among the 66 foreign nationals that Saudi Arabian authorities evacuated from Sudan on Saturday. Unknown is the precise number of Indians that were evacuated.
91 Saudi Arabians and 66 foreign nationals were on board a ship that sailed from Port Sudan to Jeddah on Saturday, according to AFP. International officials and diplomats were among those evacuated. Civilians are being evacuated from Sudan for the first time as two military factions battle for control of the country.
Three days after Saudi Arabia's and the United Arab Emirates foreign ministers discussed the situation in Sudan with India's minister of external affairs, S. Jaishankar, the evacuation took place.
Numerous Indians are stranded in Khartoum, the capital of Sudan, and other places as a result of fighting between opposing military factions over control of the North African nation. General Abdel Fattah al-Burhan's Sudanese army is engaged in combat with General Mohamed Hamdan Dagalo's paramilitary Rapid Support Forces.
The Indian embassy in Sudan had reported on April 16 that one Indian, Albert Augustine, had passed away after being struck by a stray gunshot. The area is a conflict zone where two groups of the nation's military are engaged in combat, the embassy warned people on April 20.
Saudi Arabia said on Saturday that its naval troops, assisted by other army units, had carried out the evacuation.
Along with Indians, foreign nationals from Kuwait, Qatar, the United Arab Emirates, Egypt, Tunisia, Pakistan, Bulgaria, Bangladesh, the Philippines, Canada, and Burkina Faso were also evacuated from Sudan.
According to a statement by the Saudi Arabian foreign ministry, "The Kingdom worked to provide all the necessary needs of foreign nationals in preparation for their departure to their countries."
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