A commercial plane carrying 367 Indians rescued from Sudan landed in New Delhi on Wednesday evening.
By Poulomi Saha: A commercial plane carrying 367 Indians rescued from Sudan landed in New Delhi on Wednesday evening.
The Saudi Arabian Airlines flight departed from Jeddah King Abdulaziz International Airport at 1.56 pm and reached Delhi's Indira Gandhi International Airport at 9 pm.
The government launched an evacuation mission for its citizens stuck in Sudan following the fighting between the Sudanese army and the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF). Under its evacuation mission 'Operation Kaveri', India is taking the evacuees to the Saudi Arabian city of Jeddah from where they are returning home.
India is scrambling to get its citizens out of the conflict zone before the end of a tenuous ceasefire between the regular army and a paramilitary force. So far, at least 534 Indian nationals have been evacuated from Sudan.
Two C-130J military transport aircraft of the Indian Air Force brought to Jeddah 256 Indians from Port Sudan on Wednesday, a day after an Indian Navy ship rescued 278 citizens from that country.
Apart from the Sudanese authorities, the MEA and the Indian embassy in Sudan have been in regular touch with the UN, Saudi Arabia, the UAE, Egypt, and US among others.
(With inputs from PTI)
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