A man who fled Sudan with his family after sheltering in a basement has said he is thankful they are all safely back in Derry.
Mr McDaid said that being non-Sudanese, he became "very self-conscious" that there could be some resentment towards him from rival forces.
Mr McDaid said his family had to make a split-decision and decided that where they were hiding was no longer safe and they had to go. "Before we left our neighbourhood I thought 'this can't be happening' - there was a little mortar that dropped and fell maybe three metres from one of the cars," he said.Brian McDaid says time was everything as he tried to flee the country with his family"I did see one or two corpses on the way, one of them was covered up and another was just pushed to the side.
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