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My family barricaded ourselves under a bed for days in Khartoum before escaping

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Writing for iNews, Aya Elfatih, communications co-ordinator for Islamic Relief, tells of her family’s harrowing decision to flee as battles raged around them.

Aya Elfatih, communications co-ordinator for Islamic Relief in Sudan

My country is dying and consumed by violence. A few days ago I left my home in Sudan’s capital Khartoum with my family, forced to abandon it as gunfire and explosions echoed around us and the conflict came too near for us to stay. That was one of the hardest decisions we have made yet.

I spent days barricaded under a bed, crowded together with my siblings and elderly parents. The gunfire and bombs were so close they sounded like they were coming from inside our house.

Three bullets punctured the roof of our house and we expected a bomb or shell to come through the walls at any moment. We didn’t sleep at all.

Read Aya’s account in full on iNews

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