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India intensifies efforts to evacuate its nationals stranded in Yemen

Xinhua, March 31, 2015 Adjust font size:

India has intensified its efforts to evacuate some 4,000 nationals stranded in war-torn Yemen, External Affairs Ministry sources said Tuesday.

"Five ships and four planes have been sent to Yemen to evacuate some 4,000 Indian nationals stranded there since Monday. Two passenger aircraft of the country's national carrier Air India and two Indian Air Force's C-17 Globemaster transport planes have been pressed into service," the sources said.

India's junior Foreign Minister V.K. Singh is currently in the east African country of Djibouti to oversee the evacuation efforts, the sources said.

Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi had spoken to Saudi King Salman bin Abdulaziz Al Saud over the telephone late last night about the safe passage of Indians from Yemen, the sources said. Endi