A second evacuation flight rescuing UK nationals from Sudan has landed at Larnaca airport in Cyprus amid a 72-hour ceasefire in the east African nation.
It comes after Defence Secretary Ben Wallace suggested that Brits trapped in Khartoum should take a cab from Sudanese capital to an airfield 30km outside the city if they can't get a car., Mr Wallace explained that the airport in the city had been damaged before evacuations began meaning Brits had be flown from an airfield further out, behind a number of checkpoints.
Asked by Iain Dale how evacuees are supposed to travel the 30km to the airfield if they don't have access to a car or fuel, Mr Wallace said: "Well at the moment, I mean, we have said make your way to the airfield, because that's what the Germans have done, and what others had done, and that had seemed to work. And it does seem to work.
"But of course, it's not going to be that easy, but it is functioning. People are managing to get through, and if people take their car they can leave it at the airfield - it's more benign where the airfield is. "So, they need to get through the checkpoints, we've seen so far the checkpoints are helpful, both the Sudanese armed forces and indeed the other faction... in fact we've seen reports of them holding people and helping them, and saying 'don't go at night, go later'.
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