Race to escape

Families still flee Sudan as ceasefire is extended Med student: UK not doing enough to evacuate citizens

- SIMON MURPHY

A BRITISH medical student has told of his harrowing escape from lawless, war-torn Sudan, as other desperate residents continued to flee the country yesterday.

Alaaldeen Hussin, who survived a perilous three-hour journey to the air strip being used for evacuations, also hit out at the Foreign Office saying "they could have done more".

He and his fellow British nationals have been racing to the Wadi Seidna air base, north of the capital Khartoum, after being told by the Government to make their own way there.

Some 897 people had been flown out of the country on eight UK flights as of 4pm yesterday.

Last night, with thousands of UK citizens still thought to be in the country, Sudan's armed forces accepted a 72-hour extension to the ceasefire, brokered by the US and Saudi Arabia.

The paramilitary Rapid Support Forces also agreed to the new truce.