{"id":571934,"date":"2023-04-26T09:57:45","date_gmt":"2023-04-26T04:27:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=571934"},"modified":"2023-04-26T10:26:06","modified_gmt":"2023-04-26T04:56:06","slug":"uk-starts-evacuation-flights-for-citizens-trapped-in-sudan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/uk-starts-evacuation-flights-for-citizens-trapped-in-sudan\/","title":{"rendered":"UK starts evacuation flights for citizens trapped in Sudan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Britain on Tuesday said it had launched evacuation flights for citizens trapped in Sudan, where 10 days of urban combat has led to hundreds of deaths.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;UK military flights are due to depart from an airfield outside Khartoum,&#8221; a Foreign Office statement said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Flights will be open to those with British passports and priority will be given to family groups with children and\/or the elderly or individuals with medical conditions.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>It said UK citizens should &#8220;not make their way to the airfield unless they are called&#8221; adding: &#8220;The situation remains volatile and our ability to conduct evacuations could change at short notice.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Britain on Tuesday said it had launched evacuation flights for citizens trapped in Sudan, where 10 days of urban combat has led to hundreds of deaths. &#8220;UK military flights are due to depart from an airfield outside Khartoum,&#8221; a Foreign Office statement said. &#8220;Flights will be open to those with British passports and priority will be given to family groups with children and\/or the elderly or individuals with medical conditions.&#8221; It said UK citizens should &#8220;not make their way to the airfield unless they are called&#8221; adding: &#8220;The situation remains volatile and our ability to conduct evacuations could change at [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":40,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[176,146,130],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-571934","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-civil-aviation-deccan-herald-newspapers","category-deccan-herald-newspapers","category-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/571934","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/40"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=571934"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/571934\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=571934"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=571934"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=571934"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}