Escaping Sudan: 'My mother’s body was left by smugglers in the desert' - BBC News

Those escaping Sudan’s conflict have been turning to people smugglers, with deadly consequences.

1 day agoShareclose panelShare pageCopy linkAbout sharingBy Mohamed OsmanBBC News Arabic, CairoDesperate to escape Sudan's war, people have told the BBC how they have handed over their precious savings to unscrupulous people smugglers-cum-gold miners, to make a terrifying journey to Egypt.

"They left me and my dead mother in the desert," 25-year-old Salama, who made her first desperate attempt to cross the border with her family in August, told the BBC.

Like all those interviewed for this article, her name has been changed for her safety.

She was travelling with her 65-year-old mother and four other relatives in the back of the smuggler's pick-up truck when it crashed, throwing her mother out of the vehicle.

They had been travelling for eight hours and stopped to sleep overnight before the accident happened.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-68374316

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