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Testimony of the Greeks in Sudan: “We are locked in the metropolis, they are shooting from outside”

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Testimony of the Greeks in Sudan: “We are locked in the metropolis, they are shooting from outside”

In the midst of the crossfire Khartoum, Sudan The Greeks are trapped, and fighting between the army and paramilitary groups continues with unabated intensity for the second day.

In the metropolis, in the city center, about 15 Greeks were trappedsaid on Easter Sunday to Alpha about Metropolitan of Nubian Savvas.

They could be heard while he spoke keep shooting. “No one could get out,” he explained. “We have problems. I have people who are stuck here after the Saturday morning service. No one has told us that something will happen in Sudan,” he added.

He also referred to two Greeks injured in a rocket explosion, on the morning of Holy Saturday. “They are hospitalized, they are scheduled for surgery today. One was wounded in the lower limbs, the other in one lower limb, stomach and above the eye. Doctors say their condition is stable.”

Before the metropolitan had time to finish, the connection with him broke off and is no longer possible, Alpha reported.



For my part, Honorary Consul of Greece, Gerasimos Pagulatossaid that the lives of both victims are not in danger, but they are in the hospital to carry out the necessary operations to remove fragments from the leg of one and from the abdomen of the other.

In a conversation with one of the wounded, he said that the reason why the operation has not yet been carried out is due to the fighting, due to which civilians cannot move. “Their health is all right, of course, they also have their own concerns about whether there will be an operation and when, and, of course, when the civil war that began yesterday, on Saturday, will end,” he said.

Yesterday, the Foreign Ministry advised Greeks to avoid traveling to Sudan unless absolutely necessary.



They died as a result of conflicts in Sudan. at least 56 people during two days.

Early in the morning on Easter Sunday, the Sudanese Medical Association reported many dead soldiers, as well as 56 civilians were killed and almost 600 injured. But the death toll is rising sharply thanks to scattered reports of heavy fighting both in the capital, Khartoum, and in Sudan’s second city, Omdurman.

The country’s two warlords spearheaded a movement that toppled the country’s political leadership last year but are now vying for absolute power in the Muslim country amid intense international pressure to return to constitutional legitimacy and political rule.

The fighting is between the country’s main army, commanded by General Burkhan, and the Rapid Support Forces (RSF), a powerful paramilitary force commanded by General Daglo, or “Khameti” as he is known, who is also said to have good relations with Moscow.

Author: newsroom

Source: Kathimerini

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