Over 400 killed in Sudan fighting, countries step up evacuation as foreign nationals hurt in conflict

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The United Nations children's agency said as many as nine children have been reportedly killed in the fighting and more than 50 have been grievously injured, Turkish News Agency Anadolu reported...

-Saudi Arabia was the first country that reported a successful evacuation with naval operations picking up more than 150 people, including foreign diplomats and officials from Port Sudan on Saturday..

The British army has evacuated UK embassy staff and their families from Sudan, Prime Minister Rishi Sunak said.. "UK armed forces have completed a complex and rapid evacuation of British diplomats and their families from Sudan, amid a significant escalation in violence and threats to embassy staff," Sunak tweeted...

India said it had two air force planes "on standby in Jeddah" in Saudi Arabia and a navy ship had arrived in Port Sudan, but any evacuations "would depend on the security situation", according to a foreign ministry statement...

Germany began evacuating citizens from Sudan in "an ongoing evacuation operation... in coordination with our partners", the defence and foreign ministries tweeted on Sunday, following an aborted attempt to transfer 150 Germans on Wednesday...

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