India evacuates 80 people from Kabul by IAF aircraft

Local residents offer special prayers for the safe return of Indian citizens from Afghanistan at a temple in Kolkata on Saturday. Pic/AFP

Around 80 Indian nationals were evacuated on Saturday from Kabul by a transport military aircraft of the Indian Air Force amid a deteriorating security scenario in the Afghan capital, people familiar with the development said.

The aircraft landed at Dushanbe in Tajikistan after evacuating the Indians, they said, adding the flight is expected to arrive at the Hindon airbase near Delhi in the evening.

India has already evacuated 200 people, including the Indian envoy and other staffers of its embassy in Kabul, in two C-17 heavy-lift transport aircrafts of the IAF after the Taliban seized control of Kabul.

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