Sudan's Ambassador to India, Mohammed Abdalla Ali Eltom, said that his country is coordinating closely with Sudanese authorities and the ministry of external affairs to secure the release of an Indian national abducted by Rapid Support Forces (RSF) in the war-torn Al Fashir.

"We have been in close contact with India’s ministry of external affairs ever since reports emerged about the captured Indian national. Even before that, during the siege of one of the Sudanese cities, the ministry had reached out to us about an Indian citizen who endured very difficult conditions for 500 days," Eltom told news agency PTI.

The abducted Indian has been identified as 36-year-old Adarsh Behera from Jagatsinghpur district in Odisha. Behera was reportedly kidnapped from Al Fashir and likely taken to Nyala

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