A plane carrying 104 people who were hurriedly evacuated from Sudan landed at Eindhoven airport in the southern Netherlands, the Dutch Foreign Ministry announced late Tuesday night.

Initially these people were taken to Jordan, where they were able to board the flight to the Netherlands.

“A flight from Jordan carrying 104 deportees landed in Eindhoven,” Dutch Foreign Minister Wopke Hoekstra summarized in a statement posted on his ministry’s website.

The head of Dutch diplomacy expressed satisfaction that these people are now “safe in the Netherlands” after experiencing “a very difficult time in Sudan”.

Among the 104 are Dutch and citizens of other states, the Dutch Foreign Ministry said, without giving further details.

A total of over a hundred Dutch nationals were rushed out of Sudan, half on Dutch flights. While 70 people of various nationalities were also taken away on Dutch flights, according to Mr Hoekstra.

A 72-hour ceasefire between Sudan’s warring sides, agreed under US auspices, was being partially adhered to on Tuesday in Khartoum, as several foreign countries stepped up efforts to evacuate their citizens from the African nation where chaos.

Ten days after war broke out between the army and the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) paramilitaries, the UN said yesterday that at least 459 people had been killed and more than 4,000 injured.

This account is probably an underestimate.