Armed thugs have attacked a group of Nigerian students on their way back to their hostel, located on the outskirt of Khartoum, Sudan.

A witness who survived the attack, Idris Bello, told DAILY NIGERIAN on telephone that the incident occurred near Napasha Street at 7pm on Wednesday.

According to him, five of the students escaped the attack unhurt, but 21-year-old student of Computer Science, Umar Hudu, was badly injured.

“We normally converge from the morning till evening at the International University of Africa for evacuation. Some of us who are not lucky to be evacuated today, returned to their hostels to sleep, before returning to the point the following morning.

“On our way back home, a group of armed thugs charged at us, attacking us with dangerous weapons.

“Five of us escaped unhurt but one of us Hudu Umar was severely wounded. He bled profusely as there was no hospital to take him to.

“I used my little knowledge as a medical student to attend to him, and control the bleeding,” he said.

DAILY NIGERIAN reports that Nigeria on Wednesday commenced the evacuation of stranded Nigerians in Sudan.

The Nigerians in Diaspora Commission, NiDCOM, revealed that the citizens would be transported to Egypt for onward airlifting to Nigeria.

“Last night, the Nigeria Evacuation team in SUDAN received some buses to transport Nigerian Students to nearby borders in Egypt, before airlifting them to Nigeria, this has been sorted by the Federal Government through @nemanigeria and the Nigerian Embassy in Sudan,” NiDCOM tweeted.

Source: dailynigerian