Naval warships INS Jalashwa and INS Mysore which have been dispatched to evacuate the Indian nationals stranded in strife-torn Libya would start their operations from March 8, Navy chief Admiral Nirmal Verma said.
"The two warships will reach Alexandria on March 8. Once the numbers are mustered in Tripoli, our ships can be involved in the evacuation exercise," Verma told reporters on the sidelines of a naval seminar. The ships would wait at Alexandria till the evacuation is over and these would be used to ferry the passengers to Malta, he said.
"What has been worked out with the Ministry of External Affairs is, these ships are
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