Ms Eljak said: “All of a sudden, we just woke up hearing shooting guns and military helicopters everywhere. They planned to fly back on April 24 but when fighting broke out on April 15, they were left stranded. The family flew to Sudan on April 3 to spend the end of Ramadan with Ms Eljak’s extended family in central Khartoum. Her husband holds an Irish passport and works as an emergency medicine consultant in England. Ms Eljak, from Slough, is a British citizen and works as a trainee GP. She said: “It is a very long journey for someone who has a six-month-old baby and three other kids.” Sarra Eljak (left) with two of her children (Image: PA) From there, they plan to cross the Red Sea to Saudi Arabia by ship before flying back to the UK from Jedda. Instead, the family faces a treacherous 800km journey to Port Sudan. I feel like we have been left without support.” I don’t want to put my kids’ life in danger. They should consider people with families. “I can’t take this risk with my children. “It’s extremely dangerous to reach the evacuation site and the area is still experiencing attacks,” Ms Eljak said. The family are sheltering in the city of Wad Madani.ĭespite the dangers of being left behind, they said it was too risky to make the journey to the evacuation site with their children Danya, 12, Menna, 11, Anne, seven, and six-month-old Mohammed. The last chance for British nationals to reach the Wadi Saeedna airfield was Saturday at 11am UK time, with the final evacuation flight scheduled to take off on Saturday evening. They must now find an alternative means of fleeing the war-torn country. The couple, who both work for the NHS in Britain, missed the last UK evacuation flight out of Sudan on Saturday, believing the journey to be “too dangerous”.

It comes as Ireland winds down its Cyprus-based evacuation coordination mission and pulls out members of the elite Army Ranger Wing who had been operating on the ground. READ MORE: People's mind's blown after learning real purpose of plastic pull tab on olive oil lids Mustafa Abbas, 44, his wife Sarra Eljak, 38, and their kids are sheltering in the city of Wad Madani, more than 220km south east of the evacuation air strip. The family now faces a treacherous 800km trek to the coast to get a ship.

An Irish doctor, his British wife and their four children are stuck in Sudan after missing the last RAF flight out.

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