Two IAF planes carrying 334 Indian nationals evacuated from Yemen landed here today, taking the total number of evacuees to have been brought back home from the strife-torn country to 692.
"The Indian Air Force plane carrying 155 Indians landed at 2330 while another carrying 179 landed 10 minutes later," said a defence source, adding four aircraft have flown in Indians from the troubled country so far.
The two Air Force C-17 Globemasters started from Djibouti and include 306 evacuees rescued by INS Sumitra.
Yesterday, 358 Indians evacuated from the Yemen were brought home by two IAF planes. The first plane carrying 168 people, mostly nurses from Kerala, had landed at Kochi airport, while the second plane carrying 190 Indian nationals had landed in Mumbai.
Yemen has been witnessing fierce battle between Saudi-led coalition and Shiite rebels, who have battled their way into the heart of the country's main southern city Aden where fighting raged in the former stronghold of President Abedrabbo Mansour Hadi who has fled overseas.
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