As many as 270 Indians were on Saturday evacuated from trouble-torn libya’s Benghazi city where extremists have tightened their grip after weeks of wide-spread violence.
The Indians were being moved out of Benghazi by a ship to Malta from where they will be taken to India by a special flight, External Affairs Ministry Spokesperson Syed Akbaruddin said here as he was accompany External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj at the ASEAN summit.The Spokesperson said the External Affairs Minister was monitoring the situation in Iraq and libya from here.
Swaraj is here to attend the ASEAN-India Foreign Ministers meeting. Akbaruddin said one person from Maldives was also on the Maldivian ship.“The ship will go to Malta from where we will have a special flight to bring back the Indian passengers,” he said.The Islamist militias launched a counteroffensive after units loyal to a renegade army general attempted to dislodge them from the city months earlier.