India evacuated from Nepal after the devastating earthquake in total, more than 400 foreigners, said Tuesday at a joint press conference of Deputy Ministers of foreign Affairs and the Ministry of internal Affairs of India.
"according to updated data from Nepal by air transported 170 foreign Residents from fifteen countries ", - said Deputy head of the Ministry of foreign Affairs of India Subramaniam, Jaishankar. According to the foreign Ministry of India, most of them Residents of Spain - 71, Poland - 33, Czech Republic - 20, US - 10, also five Ukrainians and two citizens of Russia. There are also citizens of Mexico, France, Romania, Germany, Brazil, Switzerland, Tanzania, the UK and South Africa.
As explained Deputy head of the Ministry of internal Affairs of India L. Goyal, overland from Nepal to India returned 251 foreign citizen.
before India opened a land route transportation to a safe place from Nepal: buses take people evacuated in 2 cities in India - Raxaul and Gorakhpur.
An earthquake of magnitude 7, 9 was on the morning of 25 April in Nepal. The first underground shock was followed by several aftershocks. The epicenter was located 82 kilometres North-West of Kathmandu. Hearth lies at a depth of fifteen kilometers. On Sunday, Nepal again shocked by a series of aftershocks, the magnitude of the most powerful of them was 6, 7.
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