British diplomats evacuated from Sudan

British diplomats and their families person been evacuated from Sudan successful a "complex and rapid" operation, Prime Minister Rishi Sunak has confirmed.

Mr Sunak said enactment was continuing to guarantee the information of British nationals who stay successful Sudan.

The evacuees were taken to an airfieldoutside of Khartoum to alert retired of the state overnight, Defence Secretary Ben Wallace told the BBC.

Fierce unit erupted past week successful Khartoum betwixt 2 opposing forces.

The powerfulness conflict betwixt Sudan's regular service and a paramilitary unit called the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) has seen deadly shooting and shelling successful the superior city.

Foreign Minister James Cleverly added that the authorities was moving "around the timepiece to broker planetary enactment to extremity the bloodshed successful Sudan."

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