India in Saudi Arabia tweeted, "Today, we closed down the transit facility created at the International Indian School Jeddah @IndianPage for Sudan evacuees during #OperationKaveri. The facility provided comfort to more than 3500 evacuees & served as the nerve centre for planning their onwards movement to India."
Highlighting Operation Kaveri to evacuate stranded Indians in conflict-ridden Sudan, Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Friday said that even big countries refused to evacuate their citizens but, India carried on the operations for the safety of its citizens.
Around 3800 Indians were evacuated from Sudan under Operation Kaveri. Indian Embassy in Sudan said there are no more Indians waiting to leave in Port Sudan.Indians have moved out of Port Sudan using five Indian Naval Ships and 17 Indian Air Force air
The aircraft landed at Ahmedabad late in the evening on 4 May 2023 and then at the home base of Hindan late in the night on the same day. The crew thus flew through extended duty periods of nearly 24 hrs to get some of the last stranded countrymen back to India.
The Indian government has evacuated as many as 3,862 Indian citizens from war-torn Sudan till date under Operation Kaveri, External Affairs Minister S. Jaishankar said on Friday.In a lengthy tweet, Jaishankar said that early on Friday morning, .