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One of the buses conveying stranded Nigerians from Khartoum, Sudan, to Port Sudan caught fire in the early hours of Monday, The PUNCH learnt.
26 buses conveying the stranded Nigerians left Al Razi around 12 am on Monday for Port Sudan where they will move into Saudi Arabia.
According to the Chairman, Nigerians Elders’ Forum in Sudan, Hashim Na’Allah, said 50 students were conveyed in the bus, but no one was injured or died during the incident.
Na’Allah narrated “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 damaged due to excessive heat from one of the vehicle’s tyres.
It was gathered that they have continued their journey.
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