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Yemen crisis: Navy evacuates around 700 Indians, evacuees recount tales of horror

Yemen crisis: Navy evacuates around 700 Indians, evacuees recount tales of horror

By :  DC Correspondent
Update: 2015-04-01 07:34 GMT
The Ministry of External Affairs on Friday said that more than 700 Indian nationals have been evacuated from strife-torn Yemen and 350 Indian nationals have come back home. (Photo: PTI)
The native of Kerala, where most of the Indian nurses in Yemen are from, chose not to board an Indian naval vessel that evacuated 349 people on Tuesday from the city, preferring to take a chance despite the fighting. (Photo: PTI)
The medics' predicament highlights the dilemma facing Indian health workers, many from poor families who borrow heavily to educate their children and then send them abroad to earn the money back. (Photo: PTI)
Expressing their happiness to be back home despite apprehensive about their future, some of them said still a lot of people were stranded in Yemen and want to return home. "The roads and streets before our hospitals were packed with Yemen military
INS Sumitra was dispatched to Al Hudaydah on Tuesday to pull out the Indians from there. (Photo: PTI)
Saudi-led coalition warplanes pounded Yemen's Shiite rebels for a sixth day today, destroying missiles and weapons depots and for the first time using warships to bomb the rebel-held airport and eastern outskirts of the port city of Aden. (Photo:
The two 180-seater aircraft dispatched by Air India yesterday remain stuck in the Oman capital Muscat due to want of clearance from the authorities. (Photo: Indian Navy)
The four ships are to join each other in Arabian Sea on April 2 and proceed as a composite group to Djibouti. (Photo: Indian Navy)
The Defence sources said four ships, including destroyer INS Mumbai and stealth frigate INS Tarkash — will reach Yemen by Saturday. Two merchant vessels — Kavaratti and Coral — have also been dispatched. (Photo: Indian Navy)
Air India has stationed two 180-seater Airbus A320 planes in Muscat for evacuation of Indians from Yemen's capital Sanaa to Djibouti whenever a clearance is given by the concerned authorities. (Photo: Indian Navy)
Two warships have been pressed into service besides two passenger ships while the Indian Air Force has put on stand-by two C-17 Globemaster transport aircraft. (Photo: Indian Navy)
Evacuation took place after India on Tuesday got permission to dock its ship at the Aden harbour as the government launched a massive air and sea evacuation operation for its over 4,000 nationals in Yemen. (Photo: Indian Navy)
The batch of 168 people, including a large number of nurses and workers from Kerala, arrived in Kochi international airport in the wee hours onboard a special IAF aircraft, in the government's first major rescue mission. (Photo: Indian Navy)
The MEA spokesperson also said that if all goes well then air evacuation will soon start from Sana. (Photo: PTI)
MEA spokesperson Syed Akbaruddin said that around 2000-2500 Indian nationals wish to come back. (Photo: PTI)
Yemen crisis: Navy evacuates around 700 Indians, evacuees recount tales of horror

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