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IAF rescues 121 people from airstrip near Khartoum in 'daring operation'
Updated On: 29 April, 2023 09:08 AM IST | New Delhi | PTI
India launched `Operation Kaveri` earlier this week to bring back the stranded Indians from Sudan. Sudan has been witnessing fighting between the country`s army and a paramilitary group that has reportedly left around 400 people dead
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The officials said the aircrew used their electro-optical and infrared sensors to ensure that the runway was free of any obstruction and there were no inimical forces in the vicinity. Pic/PTI
In a daring operation, a C-130J heavy-lift aircraft of the Indian Air Force rescued 121 people from a small airstrip at Wadi Sayyidna which is about 40 km north of the violence-hit Sudanese capital city of Khartoum, officials said on Friday. The rescue operation was carried out on the intervening night of April 27 and 28.
Those rescued in the operation included a pregnant woman and those who had no means to reach Port Sudan, the key transit point from where India is rescuing its citizens using military aircraft and naval ships, the IAF officials said.
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