Near 3,000 Indians are estimated to be stranded in Sudan amid heavy fighting between the Army of the Northeast African country and the paramilitary force.
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| Indians from the Hakki-Pikki tribe stranded in Sudan. Photo: Prabhu S via BBC |
The number encompasses around 100 people from a nomadic tribe from the Southern State of Karnataka called the Hakki-Pikki tribe – who were in Sudan to sell herbal medicine and products.
Their sad condition has ignited a political row in India after the country’s Foreign Minister S Jaishankar, accused an opposition Congress leader of “playing politics” when he requested for the safe return of the Indians stranded in Sudan via a tweet.
Some members of the Hakki-Pikki tribe living in Sudan confessed, they are living in fear, and have very minute access to necessities such as food and water.
Most of them are in the capital, Khartoum, where the fighting is very heavy, others are in the western city of Al-Fashir.
