06/12/2023

Travel Way... Danger lies on the edge of the road

Moatinoon - Ali El-Tahir
Five Benefits in Travel " Displacement worries, Acquiring a Living, Science, Ethics and good Company" But if you want to get one of them today, it seems difficult for the entrants or exits of Khartoum State, because the danger lies on the edge of the travel rail, and it is easy to fall victim to a ruthless bandit, or a gunman who strips you of everything under threat and indiscretion, even if you find the company of a grandfather, or an honest companion.

"Muhammad Bashir", a young man of a young age, did not complete his first year at the university that stopped studying for three years before the outbreak of the war that forced him to flee his home in Samrab, at Khartoum north city. On the way to Kordofan, a group tried to block their way by forcibly stopping the vehicle carrying them, but the driver refused to obey and stop. The gunmen fired shots at the back of the bus and three passengers were injured, who were ambulated in a small hospital near Para.

Passengers on minibuses and large buses were not the only target groups that suffered from road hazards. The looting up to the killing encompasses all transport sites, and not even coal and vegetable tankers were excluded, with a trader named Ali saying that gunmen looted 7 billion goods at the city of El Obeid, killed the driver treacherously, and took everything with them, including the carriages themselves.

The young "Moses" who decided to move out of the city of El Obeid to Kosti, and when they arrived on the outskirts of Umm Rawaba, armed groups intercepted, on scooters and "Tikt", the bus road. They ordered the driver to stop and deflect, then emptied the bass, he was searched and took all the passengers property money, mobiles, clothes, they did not even leave the belongings of women and children, or some compassionate dealing, they were robbed and looted in a cruel manner, and they were also whipped and tongued together.

Dangers and threats in the road, not confined to the western side of the wounded capital of Khartoum, the Northern Aryan Road, which has ceased its pulse, has become deadly, pushing transport and bus stations to replace travel by the known road and temple, taking alternative bumpy streets, not without danger and sudden attack.

"We experienced travel suffering where we spent three nights arriving in AlJaili area from the city of Shandi, where it usually takes three hours to travel and in this short road there are long procedures at checkpoints, when the driver took a bypass road, we were stopped by armed elements. They all told us to come down and stand in line, put what in our pockets down. And then everyone turned on his back, and then again they told us to get on the bus after they took the money and the mobiles and everything that was precious, we got safe but without money”. Said Haitham, who finished a business trip in the Northern State and returned to his stable family in Khartoum,

Samawal had to pay 500‪ thousand pounds to get out with his wagon and sick mother, but hours before traveling, the mothers illness intensified, and travel was postponed. A week later, he walked out with a second carriage from East Nile to Atbara. On the way, they were intercepted more than five times and their money was taken away, which was rail expenses. At one of the sub-roads, an armed group tried to stop them, but this time they refused to stop. The gunmen shot them and killed two in the second carriage that stopped. "I kept walking even though my car was damaged, I didnt stop until Shandi arrived panicking, and I dont know what happened to the other carriers until the moment," Samawal says. This incident made Samawal change his mind, deciding instead of settling in Atbara, to travel directly to the Arab Emirates.

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