Last update: May 01, 2023, 01:21 am IST
Indian citizens evacuated from Sudan hit by violence under Operation Kaveri, upon arrival at an airport in Mumbai, on April 27, 2023. (Photo: PTI/Twitter)
The Indians were brought from the Saudi Arabian city of Jeddah, where India has set up a transit camp for evacuees.
The Foreign Ministry said Monday that Operation Kaveri has facilitated the safe return of nearly 3,000 people from Sudan, even as fighting continues in the African nation.
“IAF C-130J flight carrying batch 16 of evacuees takes off from Port Sudan. 122 passengers aboard this flight are headed to Jeddah. Almost 3000 people have left Sudan under #OperationKaveri”, Arindam Bagchi, Official Spokesperson, Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
The Indians were brought from the Saudi Arabian city of Jeddah, where India has set up a transit camp for evacuees. The first batch of 360 evacuees returned to New Delhi by commercial plane on Wednesday.
Giving an update on Operation Kaveri, External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar said on Sunday that around 2,300 people have arrived in India.
“Evolution of #OperationKaveri. A C-130J flight of the Indian Air Force has landed in New Delhi with 40 passengers. With this flight, around 2,300 people have reached India,” he tweeted.
India has been busing its citizens from the conflict zones of Khartoum and other troubled areas to Port Sudan, from where they are flown to Jeddah on IAF heavy transport planes and Indian Navy ships.
From Jeddah, the Indians are being flown home on commercial flights or IAF planes.
India has established separate control rooms in Jeddah and Port Sudan, and the Indian embassy in Khartoum has been coordinating with them, as well as being in contact with the Ministry of External Affairs (MEA) headquarters in Delhi.
Deadly hostilities between the army and heavily armed paramilitaries in Khartoum and other parts of the country have entered their third week.
More than 500 people have been killed and tens of thousands forced to flee their homes in search of safer places at home or abroad since fighting broke out on April 15.
On Sunday, rival Sudanese forces announced the extension of a truce that they have largely violated.
(With inputs from the agency)
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