Another batch of Indians arrive from Libya
March 2nd, 2011 - 1:27 pm ICT by ANINew Delhi, Mar 2 (ANI): Two special Air India flights carrying 600 Indian citizens arrived here from strife-torn Libya this morning.
A third Air India flight is expected to land later today carrying 350 Indians.
“Arrangements have been finalized with Libya to receive three special flights daily from India at Tripoli over the next ten days. In addition, we are exploring possibilities of establishing air bridges with Sirte and Sebha in Libya. This should appreciably speed up the process of evacuating our nationals from Libya,” the Ministry of External Affairs (MEA) said.
It said the ship Scotia Prince, which had docked at Benghazi yesterday, is setting sail for Alexandria, Egypt, around noon, with an estimated 1,188 Indian nationals on board.
Twenty one more Indian nationals crossed over to Salloum (Egypt) yesterday by road and have been moved to Cairo and they will leave for Mumbai by Gulf Air, along with 85 other Indian nationals who had in the same way reached Cairo, it added.
On Tuesday, External Affairs Minister S M Krishna had a telephonic conversation with Libyan Foreign Minister Mussa Kussa and sought his help for the safe evacuation of Indian nationals from strife-torn Libya.
According to sources, Krishna has asked for assistance in the safe evacuation of Indian nationals stranded in Libya.
Earlier, Krishna said the evacuation of Indians from strife-torn Libya is going smoothly and over 3,500 people would have returned home by Wednesday.
“The evacuation of Indians who are wanting to come back is going smoothly. And so far by Wednesday, I think 3500 persons would have been evacuated from Tripoli,” he added.
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