Kyrgyzstan: All Indians evacuated

Seventy-seven Indian students and a professor,who were trapped in Kyrgyzstan8217;s southern Osh city wracked by ethnic violence,have been safely evacuated. Sources in the Ministry of External Affairs said the Indian mission in Kyrgyzstan,in active cooperation with Kyrgyz authorities,succeeded in pulling the students and one professor of Indian Council for Cultural Relations out of Osh and taking them to Kyrgyz capital Bishkek. Efforts were on to get the remaining Indians out of Osh and Jalalabad,the sources said.

Over 100 Indians were trapped in the violence-hit Kyrgyz city which has been hit by ethnic violence for the last three days leaving 113 people dead. The Ministry of External Affairs said in a statement earlier that about 116 Indian nationals are stranded in Southern Kyrgyzstan,due to the difficult law and order situation.