Nearly a third of 18,000 Indians, stuck in strife-torn Libya, would have been evacuated by Tuesday through air and sea.
While two special Air India flights - AI 800 (Airbus 330) and AI 171 (Boeing 744) are likely to ferry back around 600 passengers from Tripoli, up to 3000 Indian nationals, including 400 who have travelled across from Al Kufrah by road, will be evacuated by Scotia Prince and La Superba, the chartered passengers ships, Ministry of External Affairs said.
It said the Scotia Prince, which will pick up the evacuees, will return to Alexandria on March 2. "Two Air India flights with evacuees flying into Delhi frm (from) Tripoli today," Foreign Secretary Nirupama Rao tweeted. "All 68 Indian nationals who had crossed over to Salloum (Egypt) reached Mumbai by GF-056 this morning... Another 82 Indians crossed over to Salloum late last evening. They are also being taken to Cairo and expected to leave by Gulf Air flight (GF-056) via Bahrain on Tuesday, so as to reach Mumbai on Wednesday 2nd March at 0505
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