Evacuation from Sudan starts with 650 transferred

The government started evacuating stranded Bangladeshi expatriates from Sudan on Tuesday with shifting of 650 Bangladeshis to the Port of Sudan by bus.
"Seven buses carrying 400 Bangladeshis started for the Port of Sudan in the morning, then another four buses carrying 250 left for the port from a place near Khartoum," an official of the foreign ministry said.
These buses would travel 813 km to reach the Port of Sudan from where they would cross the Red Sea to reach Saudi Arabia by ship.
The crossing would take two hours, officials said.
Around 700 Bangladeshis registered for the evacuation they would be taken to the Port of Sudan. But some of them did not appear.
Several officials of the Jeddah consulate have already arrived in the Port of Sudan with the help of the Indonesian government.
They along with the officials of the Khartoum Mission will supervise the shifting of Bangladeshis from Sudan to Saudi Arabia.
Some Saudi ships have been arranged to cross the Red Sea for transferring the Bangladeshis.
The Bangladeshis will be sent back to Dhaka by the next available flights in phases.

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