Summary:
More than 100 diplomats, including Indian ambassador to Afghanistan Rudrendra Tandon, officials and journalists evacuated from Kabul in Afghanistan on Tuesday reached New Delhi at 1.30 pm after a stopover at Gujarat’s Jamnagar, an official said.
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As tension keeps rising in Kabul, more people want to flee the highly tensed land, more and more diplomats are returning to India from Kabul.
More than 100 diplomats, including Indian ambassador to Afghanistan Rudrendra Tandon, officials and journalists evacuated from Kabul in Afghanistan on Tuesday reached New Delhi at 1.30 pm after a stopover at Gujarat’s Jamnagar, an official said.
The C-17 aircraft carrying the second batch of Indians first touched down at the IAF airbase at Jamnagar at 11:15 am, the officials added.
“Your welcome has an impact on all of us.
Thank you to the Indian Air Force who flew us out under conditions that are not normal,” Tandon was quoted as saying by news agency ANI after landing at Jamnagar.
A video tweeted by news agency ANI later showed those airlifted inside a bus and shouting “Bharat Mata Ki Jai” and “Vande Mataram”.
Their evacuation came after 24-hour-long negotiations.
#WATCH | Evacuated Indians from Kabul, Afghanistan chant `Bharat Mata Ki Jai` after landing in Jamnagar, Gujarat.
— ANI (@ANI) August 17, 2021
“Those who were aboard the aircraft will be given lunch and taken to their destinations,” Gujarat minister of state for food and civil supply Dharmendrasinh Jadeja said, according to news agency PTI.