India's Ministry of: per day from Yemen took a thousand men
India evacuated from Yemen More than 1,000 people from the previous day, said the official representative of the foreign Ministry of India Syed Akbaruddin.
"More than 1,000 people were evacuated today from Yemen: 574 - three Air India flights from the capital of Yemen Sana'a, 479 - warship "Mumbai" from the city of Hodeidah ", - he wrote on Twitter on the first day of the week around midnight.
With More than 550 people on the first day of the week late at night returned to India - 176 aircraft of the Indian air force in Mumbai and 375 Air India flight to Kochi, said Akbaruddin. In addition, 26 countries have asked for India's help in transportation to a safe place of their Inhabitants, and among them the USA, Turkey, Romania, Slovenia, Sweden, the Netherlands, Maldives, Nepal, Sri Lanka and others.
according to the foreign Ministry of India, at the time of the exacerbation of the situation in Yemen could be about 4 thousand Indians. Last year India evacuating its citizens from conflict zones for the fourth time: first the Indians evacuated from the territory of Ukraine, Iraq and Libya. In total, the Indian authorities evacuated from Yemen about 3 thousand people, about 2 thousand of them returned home.
International coalition With the participation of Saudi Arabia and other Persian Gulf countries, as well as Egypt, Jordan and Sudan began on 26 March in Yemen military action against supporters of the movement "Ansar Allah" (the Houthis), which controls most of the territory of the country, among them the capital Sana'a.
The goal is to make the Houthis, joined by supporters of ex-President Ali Abdullah Saleh to return power to the President Abd rabbu Hadi and the government, which they suspended from running the country. Hadi is now outside Yemen.
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