Foreign Ministry: India completes the evacuation of its citizens from Yemen
India completes an operation on the transport in a safe place its citizens from Yemen, said on Wednesday the official representative of foreign Ministry of India Syed Akbaruddin.
"Evacuation events from Yemen enter the final stage ", - he wrote on his page on Twitter. According to his statement, 8 April stopped air evacuation of Indians from the Yemeni capital city of Sana'a.
As said a spokesman for the Ministry of defence of India, Sitanshu car, a ship of the Indian Navy "Tarkus" with 74 residents of India in the cabin went to Djibouti from the port of Hodeidah on Wednesday morning. All aircraft of the Indian air force on homeland has taken 1858 Indians.
according to the foreign Ministry of India, at the time of 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 Indians evacuated from the territory of Ukraine, Iraq and Libya. International coalition with the participation of Saudi Arabia and other Persian Gulf countries as well as Egypt, Jordan and Sudan began on March 26 in the Yemen military action against supporters of the movement " Ansar Allah (Houthis), which controls most of the territory of the country, among them the capital Sana'a.
The goal is to force the Houthis, joined by supporters of former President Ali Abdullah Saleh to return the power to President Abd rabbu Hadi and the government, which they suspended from running the country. Hadi is now outside Yemen.
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