Early on Monday, a bus carrying some of the stranded Nigerians who were being transported from the capital of Sudan, Khartoum to Port Sudan, where they were scheduled to proceed to Saudi Arabia, caught fire. The group of Nigerians, who had been stranded at Al Razi, had been split up into 26 different buses for the journey.

According to DT, a witness of the incident reported that all the passengers on board the affected bus, which was carrying around 50 Nigerian students from Sudan with the tag number Katsina 1, were able to escape without sustaining any injuries. The witness explained that the bus had suffered damage due to the intense heat generated by one of its tires, while en route to Port Sudan as part of the second batch of FGN evacuation.

Among the passengers aboard the bus carrying a total of 50 students (49 males and 1 female) was Dr. Hashim Idris Na'Allah, who serves as the chairman of the Nigerian Elders' Forum in Sudan.

At approximately 2:30 am Sudan time, the bus driver brought the vehicle to a stop near an RSF checkpoint after one of the tires exploded, which resulted in a fire breaking out. Fortunately, all of the passengers were able to exit the bus without sustaining any injuries. After the incident, 40 of the 50 passengers were transferred to the other buses involved in the evacuation of the students, while the remaining passengers and the driver stayed overnight at the RSF checkpoint where the incident occurred.

Sani Aliyu, who is currently in Sudan, revealed that according to the students, the RSF had made every effort to assist the passengers and even provided them with cups of tea in the morning before they departed.

According to DT, the evacuees have since resumed their journey to Port Sudan. Over 1,000 Nigerians are being evacuated through the Port Sudan channel due to the challenges encountered in getting the first batch of evacuees across the Egyptian borders. The stranded Nigerians had spent five days at the borders, as the Egyptian authorities had denied them access into the country where flights were already prepared to transport them to Nigeria.