Air India special flights airlift 602 Indians from Lebanon

Chennai: 342 Indians, evacuated from the trouble-torn Lebanon, arrived in Chennai on Friday night by a special Air India flight from Larnaca, Cyprus.Majority of the passengers who arrived by the Boeing 747-400, were from Tamil Nadu. Ten of them were Keralites.
Union Minister of State for External Affairs Vyalar Ravi, who received the Indian nationals, told reporters that the process of evacuation of Indians from Lebanon would continue and whoever reported to the Indian Emabassy at Beirut would be be airlifted.
Altogether 602 Indians were airlifted back home from Larnaca in Cyprus after their evacuation from Lebanon and 400 more were awaiting a chance to leave the trouble-torn country at the earliest.
Soon after the evacuees reached Larnaca from Beirut by Naval warship INS Mumbai this morning, they were put on board two special Air India planes to be brought to Mumbai and Chennai, External Affairs Ministry Spokesman Navtej Sarna told reporters here.
21/07/06 Zee News

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