110 Indian students evacuated from Iran arrive in Delhi
A flight carrying 110 students who were evacuated to Armenia from Iran amid the conflict between Israel and Iran arrived in New Delhi on Thursday, the Ministry of External Affairs said.
They were studying at Urmia University in northwestern Iran and had been evacuated to neighbouring Armenia on Tuesday.
The evacuation was supervised by India’s diplomatic missions in Iran and Armenia, ministry spokesperson Randhir Jaiswal had said on Wednesday.
The students had departed from the Armenian capital of Yerevan for New Delhi on a special flight on Wednesday.
Ninety-four of them were from Jammu and Kashmir, Chief Minister Omar Abdullah said on social media. The others were from Delhi, Maharashtra, Uttar Pradesh and Rajasthan, among other states, The Hindu reported.
Kirti Vardhan Singh, the minister of state for external affairs, said that more Indians were being evacuated, The Hindu reported.
“We have planes ready,” the newspaper quoted Singh as saying. “We will be sending another plane today. We are evacuating some more people from Turkmenistan. Our missions have opened 24-hour lines for any request for evacuation.”
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