Flight with 153 Indians from Dubai lands at UT airport

A special Air India flight has brought back 153 stranded Indians from Dubai under the Centre’s Vande Bharat Mission here.

This was the third flight under the mission to land here. Earlier, 244 Indians were brought back through special flights from New York and Ukraine’s capital Kiev. Eighty of the passengers who landed on Tuesday here belonged to Punjab, officials said.

Thirty-seven of them belonged to Himachal Pradesh; 13 from Haryana; 11 from Chandigarh; four each from Delhi and J-K; and two each from Uttarakhand and Uttar Pradesh. All passengers will be taken to their home districts under the supervision of officials where they will be quarantined according to the Government guidelines.