India launches Operation Kaveri to evacuate Indians stranded in violence-hit Sudan

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India has launched an operation to evacuate its citizens from violence-hit Sudan..

External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar in a tweet said Operation Kaveri is underway and about 500 Indians have reached Port Sudan on Monday.. Operation Kaveri gets underway to bring back our citizens stranded in Sudan...

Operation Kaveri is the latest in a series of evacuation operations India has conducted over the years to rescue Indians and citizens of friendly nations from war zones such as Afghanistan and Ukraine...

The evacuation operation was launched a day after the Ministry of External Affairs in a statement said two C-130s aircraft and the navy ship INS Sumedha are on standby to safely evacuate stranded Indians..

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