New Delhi: An Indian national, identified as Adarsh Behera from Odisha’s Jagatsinghpur district, has been kidnapped in the war-torn Sudan, in northeast Africa, reported NDTV.

Behera has been taken hostage by the Rapid Support Forces (RSF), a paramilitary force previously operated by the Sudanese government. Since 2023, Sudan is in the middle of a civil war which broke out between the Sudanese Armed Forces (SAF) and RSF. Violent clashes and devastating conflict resulted in around 13 million people being displaced from their homes, capital Khartoum bearing the brunt. ADVERTISEMENT

A video sent to NDTV shows Behera sitting between two RSF soldiers.

“Do you know Shah Rukh Khan?” one of the soldiers asks Behera.

Another soldier prompts him to tell at the camera, “Dagalo good.”

‘Dagalo’ re

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