AN asylum seeker who fled a war-torn African state has told how his life in a Swansea council tower block is even worse.

Biniam Omar, 38, was given a two-bedroom flat in the city after escaping Eritrea, a country known for its political killings, torture and human rights abuses.

6 Refugee Biniam Omar says Swansea is worse than the Third World Credit: ©James Davies Photography

6 He says people in Eritrea are nice and hard working — the only problem is the politics Credit: ©James Davies Photography

But church-going teetotaller Biniam says drunken, drug-addled yobs on his estate are making his life misery.

He said: “I feel frightened to open the door. There are many people drunk and taking drugs.

“They knock on the door in the middle of the night. Nobody told me what it was like before I came here — if they had I wouldn’t have come.

6 He says his neighbours drink and take drugs outside his flat and decide to knock on his door in the middle of the night Credit: ©James Davies Photography

6 Omar currently receives state benefits as he is too ill to work Credit: ©James Davies Photography

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6 Jobless Omar wants to be moved to the countryside as he is too scared to open his front door Credit: Wales News Service

6 Phillipa Turner was caged last week after stealing from the refugee's flat Credit: Wales News Service

“Whenever you open the door here there is a risk. People in Eritrea are nice and hard working — the only problem is the politics.”

Biniam, who gets state handouts because he is too ill to work, has lived in the city’s Griffith John Street tower block complex for five years.

The Sun told last week how a 28-year-old woman had been jailed for breaking into his home and stealing his laptop, mobile phone, clothes, aftershave and a box of chocolates.

The council said Biniam had not complained to them, adding: “We do not tolerate anti-social behaviour of any type."