A batch of 40 airlifted from conflict-hit Sudan landed in New Delhi on Sunday. An Indian airforce flight ferried them home under ‘Operation Kaveri’. As per the MEA, the total number of evacuees from Sudan now stands at 2,300.
“A C-130J Indian Airforce flight has landed in New Delhi with 40 passengers. With this flight, around 2300 people have reached India,” tweeted External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar on Sunday evening.
Meanwhile, an IAF C-130J transported 135 Indians from Port Sudan to Jeddah. The country has so far brought home around 2,000 people with many others waiting at an interim camp in Saudi Arabia’s Jeddah.
Earlier in the day, 229 more arrived in Bengaluru, a day after 365 people returned from the African country to the Indian capital safely. 125 of these hail from Karnataka, according to a statement by Karnataka State Disaster Management Authority Commissioner Manoj Rajan.
”#OperationKaveri One more flight brings back 229 passengers to Bengaluru,” External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar wrote on Twitter.
The first batch of evacuees returned to India on a commercial flight on Wednesday this week. Following this, the second batch landed in Mumbai from Jeddah airport on an Indian Air Force C17 Globemaster flight on Friday.