Home Secretary Suella Braverman earlier told Sky News that between 200 and 300 UK people had been evacuated from Sudan so far.
“We are now commencing an extensive operation, working with over 1,000 personnel from the RAF and the armed forces,” she said.
According to the government, it has about a 48-hour window to evacuate as many people as possible. Thus the RAF plane is dropping passengers off in Cyprus. Roughly halfway between Sudan and the UK – before returning to Khartoum to pick up the remaining evacuees.
While several persons I spoke with were terrified as they approached the airstrip. They stated that once they made touch with British personnel at the facility, everything went smoothly.
A second evacuation flight carrying British citizens from war-torn Sudan has arrived in Cyprus.
The passengers, along with 39 others from an earlier rescue flight on Tuesday. Which are due to be offered the opportunity to fly to the United Kingdom from Larnaca Airport later.
A third flight has taken off from Khartoum and is currently in the air.
During a 72-hour truce, British forces are seeking to evacuate UK people from the east African country.
According to a Foreign Office official, between 230 and 240 persons are being evacuated.
These are distributed across three aircraft, with the third scheduled to arrive in Cyprus later on Wednesday.
Flights will continue throughout the day, according to the spokeswoman.
Trapped Once it was obvious that the truce that began at midnight local time (22:00 GMT) on Monday was holding, British nationals were urged to make their own way to an airstrip near Sudan’s capital Khartoum.
