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World champion has to take cover after he is trapped in Egypt

03.02.2011 World

Abubaker Kaki, Sudan’s double world indoor 800 metres champion, has suffered the terrifying ordeal of being trapped for several days inside a Cairo sport centre as lawless groups carrying guns and knives roamed outside, robbing people on the streets and looting stores.

Kaki, who eventually managed to get a flight out to Khartoum after spending two days at the airport, was completing a six-week training stint at the Al Maadi Olympic centre in the south of Cairo when the angry demonstrations which are convulsing the country broke out.

He and his party - his pacemaker Abadala and Ibrahim Aden, brother of his Qatar-based coach, Jama – were advised by staff it was unsafe to leave the building.

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