Publication Date:
Sun, 2004-06-06 03:00
SHARJAH, 6 June 2004 — The Indian Embassy in Baghdad has repatriated 17 stranded Indians in the last two weeks and is waiting for transit visas to Jordan and Iran for 29 others. Ten of the 17 were sent through Jordan and seven through Iran, embassy officials said.
They either had tickets to fly home from Amman/Tehran or their families had remitted the cost of air passage through the Ministry of External Affairs, the officials said.
They crossed overland from Iraq to Iran to the east or Jordan to the west and flew home.
They were among a group of 48 Indians being sheltered at the chancery of the Indian Embassy in Baghdad; 36 of them were handed over to the mission by Iraqi police who had arrested them for having entered Iraq without a visa.
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