Air India flight carrying 193 Indians from Yemen lands in Kochi

KOCHI: An Air India flight carrying as many as 193 Indian nationals, who were stranded in war-ravaged Yemen, landed here tonight.

They were part of evacuees who were brought to Djibouti from Sanaa earlier in the day today, Kerala Minister for Diaspora KC Joseph said.

The evacuees, mostly from Kerala and Tamil Nadu, were welcomed at the airport by Joseph and state government officials. Yesterday, a group of 330 Indian nationals evacuated from strife-torn Yemen had reached here by a special AI flight.

This is the third landing of a plane carrying Indian nationals evacuated from Yemen at Kochi. In the early hours on Thursday, an IAF plane carrying 168 Indian nationals evacuated from Yemen had landed at Kochi.