A DUNFERMLINE man and his family who have been trying to flee the fighting in Sudan has admitted the situation is "very scary".

Amar Osman, who was visiting relatives near Khartoum when the conflict broke out, said the gunfire is right outside the house they're staying in.

They had hoped to flee the country on Monday, in a bus to Egypt, but their transport never showed up.

In a video call Amar told the BBC: "It's very scary. They were running along my street, shooting and chasing people.

"We're locking the doors and trying to be in the middle of the house so we're not near the walls or the windows.

"We're just trying to be in the middle of the house.

"There are a few houses maybe a mile or two from here that have been robbed.

"There are people going into the houses with guns and taking everything, their phones, their money, their food, so it's getting wild, very wild."

Amar, who lives in Dunfermline, went to visit relatives in Omdurman, the other side of the River Nile from the capital Khartoum, at the end of Ramadan.

The fighting between the army and the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces, led by rival generals who fell out about the direction the country was heading, broke out on April 15 and more than 400 people have been killed.

The UK Government announced today (Tuesday) that it will begin evacuating British passport holders and their immediate family.

Amar also took a video from inside the house where you could hear the gunfire and shelling outside.

Describing what was happening he said: "It's still going on. This is for the last 20 minutes. Scary, very scary."

An hour later he added: "It's now 6.30pm and I think the fighting is round my street now, very, very close."

His wife, Fatma Giha and her sister Amina Giha, are with him.

Both are doctors in Edinburgh.

Fatma said: "The shooting is just in front of our house so it's very traumatising. It's horrific."

His mother, Najat Alnoor, is a British citizen and she added: "It's very bad. Yesterday we heard the bombs outside my door. Very near. It's very scary."

An uneasy truce that began at midnight on Monday has seen a pause in the fighting, for now, but it's the fourth ceasefire and the previous three attempts did not last long.