Nearly 200 people including wheelchair-bound elderly women and babies asleep in their parents' arms from more than 20 countries disembark from a naval frigate in the coastal city of Jeddah on Monday night after daring –- and draining –- journeys to safety from violence-wracked Sudan. "A fierce war has begun (in Sudan). We left Khartoum to Singa. There was shooting on our way, but we selected a desert road to arrive to Kassala (eastern Sudan) and then to Port Sudan," said Fahed Alsheil, an evacuee from Sudan. IMAGES AND SOUNDBITES