Tripoli, July 24(Darfur 24)
Two Sudanese refugees were killed in road accident in the Libyan capital, Tripoli, while attempting to cross the coastal highway near the bridge for the disabled.
Mohamed Osman, a member of the Sudanese community in Tripoli, told Darfur 24 that the two victims were Zahraa Abkar Neil and Amna Siddiq Ahmed, both young women from El Fasher, North Darfur.
He explained that a speeding car hit them as they were crossing the road, resulting in their immediate death.
He added that “Libyan authorities transferred the two bodies to Tripoli General Hospital without opening an official investigation into the incident. The fate of the driver involved in the incident is still unknown.”
Israa Khamis, a relative of one of the victims, told Darfur 24 that the two girls had arrived in Libya several months ago, fleeing the siege imposed by the Rapid Support Forces(RSF) on El Fasher. She noted that one of them had lost her brother in an artillery attack that targeted her family’s home.
Israa expressed the family’s shock at the incident, noting that the two girls had fled the war in search of safety, but death pursued them in exile.
In a similar incident, a Sudanese refugee named Samira Daoud died earlier this earlier this year in road accident in the Tajoura area east of Tripoli. No information is available yet on the results of the investigation into her case.
According to the latest statistics issued by the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) in Libya, the country hosts approximately 313,000 Sudanese refugees distributed across several cities, including Tripoli and Misrata in the west, Benghazi and Ajdabiya in the east, and Sabha, Qatrun, and Kufra in the south.