As Jayalaxshmi Pillai saw her younger sister Latha Manappan walk in towards the reporting counter, she waved and shouted out her name through the glass facade. A tear dripped down and she said in her local dialect, Tamil, “I am relieved now. She is never going back there.”
The 28-year-old was one amongst the 190 Indian Nationals evacuated from Yemen. As soon as Latha stepped out with just a carton and a small bag with her name written with chalk, she kissed her elder sister
IAF aircraft 370 with 190 Indian nationals from Yemen landed at Mumbai International Airport at 3.30 am Thursday morning. In the multi-agencies coordinated effort, the Indian Air Force deployed two C-17 Globemasters III aircrafts to Djibouti on April 1
Of the 349 people rescued, the remaining were directed towards Kochi. The passengers exited from the G-5 gate at airport’s P-4 level. According to GVK officials, all the passengers were supposed to be dropped at their respective residences by authorities.
The evacuation from Yemen comes after government of India ordered Indian nationals to vacate the conflict zone.
Nitish Gopalan, brother in law of Rajini Hari – a nurse residing in Sana’a – said that she had called on Sunday to inform the family that she has stopped going for work in a government run hospital near her house. “Earlier they were taking patients and treating them. In the last two days the situation became worse and she stopped reporting for work.”
Rajini lived with few other nurses from Kerela. Gopalan, a Panvel resident, said, “She could constantly hear bombing outside her house. Once she made me hear the bombings over the phone,” he said.
