/ 15 June 1999

SUDANESE TRAVELLERS DIE OF THIRST

TWENTY Sudanese travellers have died of thirst in the Libyan desert in recent days, the Akhbar al-Youm daily reported on Tuesday. Thirteen people died after the truck they were travelling in towards neighboring Libya broke down near the border a few days ago. The other 52 people who had been travelling with them managed to reach Libyan villages. Another seven people died of thirst last week after their vehicles broke down in the same area, the newspaper reported.

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