More than 800 Indian Residents returned home after transportation to a safe place from Yemen, said the official representative of the foreign Ministry of India Syed Akbaruddin.
"More than 800 Residents returned home, More than 200 people from 25 countries went or go to their country," he wrote in his own microblog on Twitter.
on the night of Monday 2 aircraft of the Indian air force landed in Mumbai with 454 Indians in the cabin. The Air India flight, bound for Kochi with 352 passengers, reached the destination after midnight.
As stated foreign Affairs of India Sushma Swaraj, the evacuation of Indians from the city of Aden, with the assistance of the naval forces is over. In addition, 3 of the Air India plane c 488 passengers in the cabin flew from the capital of Yemen Sana'a in Djibouti. Another 203 people, among them citizens of foreign countries from eight countries, were taken from the Yemeni port of Mukalla in Djibouti on a military ship " Sumitra ".
according to the foreign Ministry of India, at the time of the exacerbation of the situation in Yemen could be about 4 thousand Indians. Last year India evacuating its citizens from conflict zones for the fourth time: first the Indians evacuated from the territory of Ukraine, Iraq and Libya. In total, the Indian authorities evacuated from Yemen More than 2 thousand people, approximately 1, 5 thousand of them returned home.
International coalition with the participation of Saudi Arabia and other Persian Gulf countries, as well as Egypt, Jordan and Sudan began on 26 March in Yemen military action against supporters of the movement "Ansar Allah" (the Houthis), which controls most of the territory of the country, among them the capital Sana'a.
The goal is to make the Houthis, joined by supporters of ex-President Ali Abdullah Saleh to return power to the President Abd rabbu Hadi and the government, which they suspended from running the country. Hadi is now outside Yemen.
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