West Asia conflict: 80 students among 111 Pune residents flown back from UAE

PUNE: A full of 111 residents from Pune district, including students stranded successful Dubai owed to the ongoing US-Israel-Iran subject conflict, person safely returned home, the territory medication confirmed connected Wednesday. Authorities said that 184 residents from Pune were initially stuck successful the United Arab Emirates (UAE) city, and efforts are ongoing to bring backmost the remaining travellers. Among those who returned were 80 students and 4 module members from the Indira School of Business Studies (ISBS). Across Maharashtra, 164 tourists stranded successful the UAE owed to the escalating struggle successful West Asia person returned successful 2 peculiar flights arranged by Deputy main curate Eknath Shinde, a Shiv Sena leader, officials said.

The flights, which landed astatine Mumbai International Airport connected Tuesday night, brought backmost travellers from Pune, Thane, and Ahilyanagar districts. The territory collector, Jitendra Dudi, added that flights for 19 Pune residents inactive stranded successful Dubai person been rescheduled, portion arrangements for the remaining 54 travellers are underway.

Dr Janardhan Pawar, Dean astatine Indira University, expressed gratitude to the Centre and the Maharashtra authorities for facilitating the harmless instrumentality of the ISBS students and faculty.

Flight operations to astir West Asian airports person been disrupted since Saturday owed to the conflict, leaving thousands of passengers stranded. The Centre and Maharashtra authorities person issued advisories urging Indian citizens overseas to enactment safe, stay vigilant, debar unnecessary movement, and travel instructions from section authorities and Indian embassies. In lawsuit of emergencies, citizens are advised to interaction the 24x7 helpline numbers of the respective Indian embassies. The Maharashtra authorities has appealed to its residents overseas to enactment diligent and trust lone connected authoritative information. For assistance wrong Pune district, citizens tin interaction the District Disaster Management Control Room astatine 020-26123371 oregon 26133522, Dudi added.(With bureau inputs)