Some 27 Sudanese died of Thirst

Some 27 Sudanese have died because they were exposed to threat on Danqala- al-Kafra road in the Northern province, adjoining the Libyan borders.

The Sudanese daily Akhbar al-Youm said on Wednesday that that 27 Sudanese who lost their way while traveling by land to Libya and they did not carry water with them. The 27 Sudanese who died ran out of waters in the desert when the driver tried to fetch them some water and returned back to them and found every body dead because of thirst.

The paper added that only one person out of the 27 was able to enter the Libyan territories alive. Relatives of the dead were notified about their death. Most of them are from the Sudanese province of al-Jazira.