Summary:
Proud India welcomes Indian rescues from Afghanistan,
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The Indians rescued from Afghanistan landed at Gujarat`s Jamnagar airport on Tuesday.
The happines and joy was seen in their faces with all of them chanting Bharat Mata Ki Jai and Vande Mataram.
#WATCH | Evacuated Indians from Kabul, Afghanistan chant `Bharat Mata Ki Jai` after landing in Jamnagar, Gujarat.
— ANI (@ANI) August 17, 2021
The C-17 aircraft, a military transport airliner touched down at the Indian Air Force airbase in Jamnagar at 11.15 am on Tuesday.
It had taken off from Kabul with 120 Indians as part of the emergency evacuation following the annexation of Kabul by the Taliban in Afghanistan.
Indian Ambassador to Afghanistan Rudrendra Tandon told media people in Jamnagar that the situation in Kabul is complex and `quite fluid`.
Tandon also informed that Indians stuck in the capital city of Kabul will be brought back to India with the resumption of commercial flights.
Indian Air Force C-17 #Globemaster evacuated stranded Indian and embassy staff from #Kabul @AFP pic.twitter.com/aYOJ7vpOVC
— Hassan Sajwani (@HSajwanization) August 17, 2021
Notably, the rescue operation carried out by the C-17 aircraft is the second dedicated rescue flight by India in Afghanistan.
On Monday, before the operations at the Hamid Karzai International Airport in Kabul were suspended, another C-17 aircraft had evacuated around 40 people including some Indian embassy staff from Kabul.
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