All arrangements are underway to evacuate another batch of 300 Indian nationals from Al- Hudaydah in Yemen tonight through sea route. According to officials, while sea route has been working out fine for the evacuation operation Raahat, government is making efforts to have air route open to rescue its nationals from Sanaa.
There are over 2,000 Indians in Sanaa. Minister of State for External Affairs V K Singh, who is in Djibouti to oversee evacuation operation, met Foreign Minister Mohamoud Ali Youssouf of Djibouti and thanked him for the help extended to India in the evacuation of its nationals.
Meanwhile, 358 evacuees, who were rescued from Aden by INS Sumitra and were taken to Djibouti, returned by two Indian Air Force C-17 plane during past 24 hours. This is the fourth major evacuation which the Indian government has undertaken.
The first three were in Ukraine, Iraq and Libya. Yemen has been witnessing fierce battle between Saudi-led coalition and Shiite rebels, who have battled their way into the heart of Yemen’s main southern city Aden.