An 85-year-old British citizen was shot dead by snipers and his 80-year-old wife starved to death after they stayed in Sudan– said their family, complaining that the British government did nothing to help them.

Abdallah Solgami lived with his 80-year-old wife Alaveya Riswan, who was disabled, just a few steps from the British Embassy in Khartoum, the BBC reported.

As the family told the BBC, the Solgami were not offered support to leave Sudan after war broke out in the country. He was simply told to go to an airport 40 kilometers from Khartoum, through a war zone, to board a flight that was supposed to take foreign nationals out of the country.

Faced with hunger and lack of water by himself and his wife, Solgami was forced to leave home in search of help. He was shot three times – in the arm, chest and back – by snipers. He survived after being transferred to a family member in another part of Khartoum.

The family reported that Solgami’s wife Alaveya Riswan was left alone and family members could not reach her because their house was in an area surrounded by snipers. As a result, an 80-year-old man died of starvation.

Solgami’s granddaughter Azhar, who grew up in Khartoum, said the British embassy building was “no more than four steps” from her grandparents’ home. “I was informed that they had 100 soldiers who came and removed the embassy staff. “They couldn’t cross the street? I’m still very disappointed with them,” she said.

“What happened to my grandparents was a crime against humanity, not only on the part of the Rapid Support Forces (RSF), not only (of the Sudanese army), but also on the part of the British Embassy, ​​because they were the only ones who could prevent this didn’t happen to my grandparents,” Azhar added.

Source: RES-IPE