First flight carrying stranded Indians from Abu Dhabi lands at Kochi
KOCHI: Launching its biggest ever repatriation exercise, India onThursday airlifted 363 of its citizens, including nine infants, stranded in the United Arab Emirates due to the international travel lockdown over the COVID-19 pandemic.
While the first Air India Express flight carrying 177 passengers and four infants from Abu Dhabi landed at Kochi at 10:09 pm, the second flight from Dubai carrying same number of passengers and five infants landed at Kozhikode few minutes later at 10.:32 pm.
