2023-05-08 03:13:22
For more than 10 hours, the sisters of Siddiq Abu Samra kept waiting and sending distress messages, hoping to find three or four men to bury his body following his death in Al-Amarat neighborhood, one of the most prestigious neighborhoods in Khartoum, which turned into a ghost town following regarding 95 percent of its residents abandoned it because of its close proximity. From the airport area and the General Command, where fierce battles have been taking place for 4 weeks between the army and the Rapid Support Forces.
Before the few men completed the burial ceremony for Abu Samra, the guards of a nearby building were surprised by the stench emanating from a neighboring building, only to discover that it was the body of Dr. Magdoline, one of the most famous anesthesiologists in Sudan, who had been under the rubble for more than three days following her house was bombed.
For the twenty-fifth day in a row, the neighborhood and a number of neighboring neighborhoods remained without water or electricity, and almost completely devoid of movement in light of a state of extreme terror and fear among the very small number of residents who remained in the neighborhood, which was before the war one of the most The Sudanese capital is vital, as it is the seat of more than 80 percent of diplomatic missions and international organizations operating in the country.
Businessman Khaled Saleh, a veteran of the neighborhood, expresses the great shock that befell him and his neighbors. “We did not expect such a tragic fate,” he told Sky News Arabia. “Under the pressure of the heavy shelling and the continuous showers of bullets, we were forced to leave our homes in which we lived our childhood and youth.”
“Even our neighbors who died or were killed, we were unable to funeral their bodies,” he added.
Saleh points out that the neighborhood, because of its close proximity to the army command, the airport and the military areas, has become one of the most dangerous areas in which people can live in light of the current war.
Saleh expresses his deep sorrow over what happened to the residents of the neighborhood and other nearby neighborhoods such as Arkaweet and Burri, where people lost their homes that were looted and vandalized.
Each of the residents of the neighborhood has a tragedy that tells the extent of the destruction and grief left by the war, and Jamal, 55, who was born in the neighborhood, says that the painful news has been coming to him since he fled the neighborhood regarding 20 days ago, indicating that his house was looted and completely destroyed in the absence of complete to the police or any security authority.
In the same context, Omaima says that one of her relatives, who lives in the neighborhood, did not find anyone to bury him, so his son was forced to carry his body on the car and take him to a remote neighborhood where some of his relatives live to seek their help to bury him.
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