India to evacuate its citizens from Kyrgyzstan next few days

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NEW DELHI, June 15 (Itar-Tass) -- India will evacuate all its citizens
from Kyrgyzstan in the next few days, the Indian Foreign Ministry said in
a statement on Tuesday.
More than 100 Indian citizens were staying in southern Kyrgyzstan
embraced by the disorders, most of them are students learning in Osh and
Jalal-Abad.
All of them were airlifted to Bishkek on Tuesday night, the Indian
Foreign Ministry reported. Indian citizens will be brought back to the
homeland in the next few days. The air traffic from Bishkek is routine.
The safe evacuation of Indian citizens was made through the efforts of
the Indian Embassy to Kyrgyzstan in close cooperation with the Kyrgyz
authorities and with their support, the Indian Foreign Ministry reported.
According to official reports of the Kyrgyz Foreign Ministry, some
1,103 foreign citizens were evacuated from the conflict area in southern
Kyrgyzstan, where ethnic clashes between Kyrgyz and Uzbeks had flared up
overnight to June 11.
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