2 more flights with Indians evacuated from Iran arrive in Delhi

Two more flights with Indian citizens who were evacuated from Iran have arrived in Delhi amid the conflict between Israel and Iran, the Ministry of External Affairs said on Saturday.

Two-hundred and ninety Indians, including students and pilgrims, arrived on a charter flight on Friday night, the ministry said.

The second flight arrived at 3 am on Saturday from Ashgabat, Turkmenistan. More than 100 Indians who had travelled to Ashgabat from Iran earlier were on board the flight.

With this, 517 Indian citizens have returned under the evacuation exercise codenamed Operation Sindhu.

The first flight as part of Operation Sindhu with 110 Indian students had arrived in Delhi on Thursday.

The students had been evacuated to Armenia from Iran on Wednesday. They were studying at Urmia University in northwestern Iran and had been evacuated to neighbouring Armenia on Tuesday.

Iran had eased airspace restrictions to allow three chartered flights to evacuate about 1,000 Indians from the country, the Hindustan Times quoted Mohammad Javad Hosseini, the deputy chief of mission at the Iranian embassy in Delhi, as saying on Friday.

The Indian citizens were first relocated from the capital Tehran to the city of Qom, and then to Mashad city in northeastern Iran. They were being brought back to India from Mashad.

One more flight was expected to arrive in Delhi on Saturday.

The Indian external affairs ministry said that...

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