Phnom Penh, Cambodia: You know you're not high on anyone's safety list when you're evacuated by bus:





Cham students expected to land in Cambodia after bus ride to Oman border.

Sixteen students from Cambodia’s Cham Muslim community have been safely evacuated from restive Yemen and were expected to land in Cambodia on Tuesday after receiving assistance from the Malaysian and Singaporean governments.

The Cambodia Daily quoted Tort Diail, 23, as saying that the situation in Yemen’s capital had become unsustainable, and that he had been terrified to leave as Shiite Houthi rebels carried out attacks, only to be met with Saudi-led airstrikes.

Speaking to the Daily from Oman after his escape, he said he was “very scared” by the shooting noises in Sanaa, where he had been studying Arabic and Islamic studies for a year, since it was unlike anything he had ever heard before.

Of the 20 Cham students studying in Yemen, only 16 were evacuated, government official and Cham leader Othsman Hassan told the newspaper, saying that four remained in a safer part of Yemen to complete their exams.

The 16 who left were taken to the border by bus, organized by the Singaporean government, before being picked up by officials from the Malaysian Embassy.

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