Sunday, April 05, 2015

Evacuees brought in two flights

Kochi: As many as 332 more Indians, evacuated from war-hit Yemen, landed in Kochi Saturday night. The Air India Boeing 777 aircraft carrying them landed at the Nedumbassery International Airport at 10.02 p. m. as scheduled earlier.

A hundred-and-thirty-two of the passengers deplaned in Kochi and the others are scheduled to be flown to Mumbai.

Operations to evacuate Indians from Yemen picked up momentum on Saturday and 330 stranded Indians were brought in by an early morning flight.

Earlier, 106 people had arrived here at 12.40 a.m. on Saturday, ferried by an Air India 777 aircraft from Djibouti. They were among the stranded Indians evacuated from the strife-torn Yemen’s capital city Sana’a to Djibouti in two sorties flown by Air India on Friday.
05/04/15 The Hindu
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