CHATTANOOGA, TENNESSEE - A teenager hurt in a highway crash that killed his mother, two brothers and a sister left a hospital Monday assisted by church friends who three years ago welcomed his resettled Sudanese family to suburban Atlanta. <br>
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Shamsoun Daldoum, 13, of Stone Mountain, Ga., was released from Erlanger Medical Center where he was treated for a head injury and cuts suffered in the Wednesday night crash on Interstate 24. <br>
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Frank Barber, a member of Stone Mountain First Baptist Church, said Monday that he was driving Daldoum and the teen's injured father, Daldoum Angelo-Koko, 37, back to their apartment in Georgia. <br>
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The boy's father, a tool repairman who was driving the van that overturned and rolled over on Interstate 24, suffered a hand injury in the accident about 20 miles west of Chattanooga. <br>
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The crash killed the teen's mother, Smira Daldoum, 30, brothers Banja, 2, and Gimbia, 5, and a sister, Sara, 10. The victims were not wearing seat belts, according to the accident report. <br>
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Two other brothers, Idwar, 8, and Roubin, 6, suffered minor injuries and returned to school Monday, Barber said. <br>
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Barber said the family resettled in Stone Mountain more than three years ago after fleeing the Nuba mountains and hostilities in Central Sudan. <br>
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They were going to Memphis to meet with other ``Christian Nuba people,'' Barber said. <br>
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Barber said he and his wife traveled to Chattanooga when they were notified of the accident and other church members have been assisting with the two children who were not hurt. <br>
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``We kept the children last night,'' he said. <br>
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He said the church held a prayer meeting for Sudanese people on Saturday and has set up a fund to accept contributions for the family. <br>
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He said contributions for the family can be sent to the Koko Benevolent Fund, Care of First Baptist Church Stone Mountain, P.O. Box 806, Stone Mountain, Ga., 30083.
