Operation Kaveri: twelfth flight carrying 230 Indian evacuees from Sudan departs from Jeddah

Under ‘Operation Kaveri’, the twelfth flight carrying 231 stranded Indian evacuees, departed from Jeddah on a Mumbai-bound flight. 

“12th outbound flight departs from Jeddah. 231 passengers are heading to Mumbai,” External Affairs Ministry Spokesperson Arindam Bagchi tweeted on Wednesday. Earlier, on Tuesday night, 328 further Indians landed on the New Delhi International Airport from strife-torn Sudan. Nearly 3,000 stranded Indians have reached India till now. 

“328 more passengers have landed in New Delhi. #OperationKaveri moving steadily forward as around 3000 have reached India now,” External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar tweeted. 

Committed to creating positive that no Indian nationwide is left behind in Sudan, India started Operation Kaveri on April 24 and deployed its military planes and warships inside the war-torn nation. 

Earlier on Tuesday, one different ‘Operation Kaveri’ flight carrying 231 Indian evacuees reached Gujarat’s Ahmedabad on Tuesday from Saudi Arabia’s Jeddah, Jaishankar said. 

“Another #OperationKaveri flight lands in Ahmedabad. 231 more passengers have reached home safely,” the EAM tweeted. Under Operation Kaveri, the tenth flight carrying Indian nationals left Jeddah earlier on Tuesday. 

The United Nations humanitarian coordinator in Sudan has warned that the humanitarian catastrophe inside the nation is popping proper right into a “full flown catastrophe” and that the possibility of spillover into neighbouring worldwide areas was worrisome. 

“It has been more than two weeks of devastating fighting in Sudan, a conflict that is turning Sudan’s humanitarian crisis into a full-blown catastrophe,” Abdou Dieng, Resident and Humanitarian Coordinator inside the nation, knowledgeable a briefing of member states by video hyperlink. 

Fighting is underway in Khartoum as a result of the UN warns that Sudan is at a humanitarian “breaking point”. Rival military forces accuse each other of latest violations of a ceasefire that that that they had merely agreed to extend as their devastating battle enters a third week. 

Sudan continues to face bloodshed due to clashes between the army and paramilitary forces. Earlier, External Affairs Minister (EAM) S Jaishankar on Sunday said that almost 2300 evacuee Indians have reached the nation. 

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