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India temporarily relocates Khartoum embassy to Port of Sudan as most Indians evacuated

India temporarily relocates Khartoum embassy to Port of Sudan as most Indians evacuated

New Delhi, May 2 (UNI) India on Tuesday temporarily relocated its embassy in Khartoum city to the Port of Sudan, even as New Delhi successfully evacuated over 3,000 of its nationals from violence-hit Sudan and ferried over 2,500 of them back to India.
An official statement said:
“In view of the prevailing security situation in Sudan, including attacks in Khartoum city, it has been decided that the Indian Embassy in Khartoum will be temporarily relocated to Port Sudan.
“The situation will be assessed in the light of further developments.
“The Embassy may be approached at following numbers: +249 999163790; +249 119592986; +249 915028256
And E-mail: [email protected].”
MEA spokesperson Arindam Bagchi in a tweet on Operation Kaveri said;
“19th batch of evacuees under #OperationKaveri left Sudan overland.
“A group of 20 Indians crossed over to Chad through the adjoining land border with Sudan.
“Our teams are facilitating their journey back home.”
“An IAF C-130J aircraft carrying 18th batch of Indian evacuees reached Jeddah evacuating 135 passengers.”
An 11th outbound flight from Jeddah arrived in New Delhi today carrying 328 passengers.
Earlier, a 10th flight carrying 231 Indians rescued from Sudan arrived in India, even as more Indians were brought out from the violence-hit nation under Operation Kaveri.
On Monday night, the Indian Embassy in Riyadh had in a tweet said that an IAF C-130 J flight had brought the 17th batch of evacuees from Port Sudan to Jeddah. 122 Indians were evacuated by the flight.
On Monday, the figure of Indians brought back to India stood at nearly 2,500.
India has successfully evacuated more than 3,000 of its nationals from the strife-hit country under Operation Kaveri so far.
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