Kochi. People from the state who have returned to Kerala after being evacuated from violence-hit Sudan say they are relieved to be back and their survival is like a miracle. He reached the international airport here in the morning from New Delhi.
Biji Alappat said, “With the blessings of God, we came back home. Despite the ceasefire, fighting is still going on in many parts of Sudan.” Arrived.
Speaking to the media outside the airport, Allappat said that life in Sudan has been peaceful for the past several years and he never thought that there would be a fight between the two army factions. He said that there were at least six to seven thousand Indians living in Sudan. Alappat, who works in an oil company in Sudan, said, “A large number of Indians have already left Khartoum for other places by bus.
I think, if we can evacuate 500-600 people per day, we can complete the mission in 10 days. Talking about the situation in violence-hit Sudan, he said shortage of fuel supplies and looting incidents have increased. Apart from Alappat, his wife and three children also reached here in the morning. His wife Sharon said she was relieved to be home safely and reunited with other family members.
Thomas Varghese and Sheelamma Thomas, a couple from Kottarakkara, reached the state this morning. He said his return to his home state was “like a miracle”. “We never thought that we could come back,” Thomas told reporters outside the Thiruvananthapuram airport. We were living there for 18 years and never faced such situation before. Life there was very miserable after the violence started.
His family thanked the central and state government for the evacuation mission. The wife and daughter of Albert Augustine, a retired state soldier who was killed in a shootout in Sudan’s Khartoum earlier this month, also arrived in the kingdom this morning.
photo credit: Divya Himachal
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