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DONGOLA, Sudan: Hundreds of exhausted illegal migrants reached the safety of a northern Sudanese town Saturday, an AFP journalist said, after human traffickers abandoned them in the desert with the loss of 10 lives.
A convoy of six Sudanese Army trucks delivered the migrants to Dongola after a journey of hundreds of kilometers following their rescue on the Sudanese-Libyan frontier by troops from both countries.
Sudanese officials announced the rescue on Wednesday, saying traffickers had dumped their victims in the border region’s scorching desert where 10 died.
Troops initially found about 300 hungry and thirsty victims, but a military source said they later came across even more. AFP counted about 500 migrants in the convoy which reached Dongola. Most appeared to be Ethiopian or Eritrean.
An eight-year-old girl in the group was taken immediately to hospital, officials said. According to the UNHCR, 600 refugees on average from Eritrea make their way to neighboring Sudan each month.
Most of them want to continue onwards, to Israel or Europe, rather than stay in impoverished Sudan.
“Some of them try to go through Egypt. Some of them try to go through Libya,” said a source familiar with the situation. “They would try to cross the Mediterranean Sea via Libya.” Economic migrants or refugees often rely on people smugglers.