Air India flight to leave for Tunisia to bring back Indians stranded in Libya: MEA

Another special Air India flight will leave tomorrow for Djerba in Tunisia to bring back 216 Indian nationals stranded in Libya.

According to MEA, over 1500 Indian nationals are expected to be moved out of strife stricken areas of Libya by the end of this week.

A batch of Indian workers and nurses stranded in Libya returned to Delhi safely early this morning.

Earlier, on Tuesday, over 50 Indian nurses belonging to Kerala, had returned from Libya. They were received at Kochi Airport.

Fighting between rival militias in Tripoli over the past three weeks, and bloody clashes between Islamists and the army in the eastern city of Benghazi in Libya, has prompted several countries to evacuate their nationals and diplomatic staff.

Militias controlling large parts of the country are behind Libya's worst violence since the 2011 uprising that toppled Col. Muammar Gaddafi.

In 2011, the Indian Government carried out a "mammoth operation" involving planes and ships to evacuate thousands of nationals from conflict -hit Libya.