Ashish Ranjan
Operation Kaveri: The official MEA spokesperson, Arindam Bagchi, wrote, “The eighth flight carrying Indian evacuees departs from Jeddah as part of #OperationKaveri.” A 40-passenger IAF C-130J aircraft is en route to Delhi.” Today, the seventh flight bound for Bengaluru set off from Jeddah with 229 passengers on board. “#OperationKaveri is returning citizens to their homes. The 7th outbound flight conveying 229 passengers departs Jeddah for Bengaluru,” tweeted MoS Muraleedharan.
Operation Kaveri brought 365 Indians from Sudan to New Delhi on Saturday evening, while a flight carrying 231 Indians arrived in the national capital on Saturday morning. As a ceasefire has been declared in Sudan, several nations, including India, are endeavoring to evacuate their citizens from a war-torn country.
Conflicts between the army and paramilitary forces are causing carnage in the Sudan.
Saturday, the Indian Navy ship INS Teg effectively evacuated 288 stranded Indians from crisis-stricken Sudan as part of Operation Kaveri. This was the fourteenth group of stranded citizens returning to India via Jeddah.
Previously, the Port Sudan-based INS Sumedha departed the crisis-stricken nation with 300 passengers bound for Jeddah.
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Under Operation Kaveri, the Indian government will evacuate approximately 3,000 passengers of Indian descent from Sudan.Up until Friday, more than 2,400 Indians were evacuated from Sudan, where army and paramilitary forces were clashing and causing widespread violence.
