Chinese firms evacuate 330 staff in South Sudan as deadly fighting escalates
Three Chinese peacekeeping soldiers who were injured on Sunday, have been transferred to a UN hospital in Kampala, Uganda
Chinese companies have evacuated more than 330 staff working in South Sudan after an escalation in the conflict in the northeastern African nation, which has killed many people, including two mainland peacekeepers, state media says.
On Wednesday a group of 71 Chinese engineers boarded a chartered flight from Juba, the war-hit capital city of South Sudan, and landed in Sudan’s capital, Khartoum, Xinhua reported.
The workers, most of whom are employed by China Communications Construction, were helping to build an extension to the airport in Juba before the fierce fighting erupted last week.
China Overseas Engineering Group said on Wednesday that it had evacuated about 260 Chinese employees, mostly from state-owned Chinese companies involved in infrastructure projects in South Sudan, Xinhua said.
Meanwhile, three Chinese peacekeeping soldiers who were injured on Sunday, have been transferred to a UN hospital in Kampala, the capital city of Uganda, where one of the seriously wounded took a three-hour medical operation, Xinhua reported.
And under UN’s arrangement, another Chinese soldier, who were also badly injured, would be conveyed to Uganda on Thursday morning local time