The Ministry of External Affairs on Saturday said that the pace of evacuation of from Libya has been stepped up even further.
It said that under its "Operation Safe Homecoming" initiative, over 9200 our nationals have left Libya on 24 special flights, ships, commercial carriers and by road, since the process had begun on February 26.
It said that in the past 24 hours, two Air India special flights (from Tripoli), one from Sebha (Libya) and three from Djerba (Tunisia) have arrived in India.
In a welcome development, A 747 aircraft landed at Sebha (Libya) yesterday and has brought home some 350 passengers to Mumbai. Another sortie is being undertaken today.
In parallel, 220 Indians returned to Mumbai today from Tunisia (via Dubai) on an Emirates flight. Another chartered Egypt Air and fly Dubai flights, flew-in 170 and 190 persons respectively, to India from Djerba (Tunisia).
It said that the MV Scotia Prince has since sailed back for Benghazi from Alexandria to bring back the remaining passengers. It is expected to reach Benghazi around 4 p.m. local time today.
The ministry said that the number of nationals taking the land route to Salloum (Egypt) is growing steadily. It said that a record high of 191 had crossed over on 3rd evening and 12 on 4th
All of them were assisted by officials of Embassy of India, Cairo, with visas on arrival, comfortable transport to Cairo, hotel stay and onward booking on commercial flights for travel to India. So far 467 persons have been facilitated by the Mission at the Salloum border.
05/03/11 ANI/Sify.com
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