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TUTICORIN, JUNE 7
INS Jalashwa on Sunday safely docked at the harbour in Tuticorin, Tamil Nadu on Tuesday bringing back 700 stranded Indian nationals from Male.
#INSJalashwa arrives in Tuticorin port with 700 Indian nationals evacuated from #Maldives. So far 2874 Indians have been repatriated in Op #SamudraSetu.#VandeBharatMission#हरकामदेशकेनाम#IndiaFightsCorona @DefenceMinIndia @indiannavy @SpokespersonMoD @DDNewslive @airnewsalerts pic.twitter.com/Ad2hQXE5fI
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The repatriation exercise has been facilitated by the Indian High Commission in Male, in coordination with Maldives authorities. Buses took the returnees from different places in capital Male while the passengers hailing from the islands outside Male were brought in ferries.
Operation #SamudraSetu – INS Jalashwa departs #Male for Tuticorin with 700 Indians embarked.
With this trip, Jalashwa will successfully bring back almost 2700 Indian citizens from Maldives and Sri Lanka to Indian shores
https://t.co/dTeBFBqj4k pic.twitter.com/BiugrubJwb— Central Bureau of Communication, Chandigarh (@CBC_Chandigarh) June 6, 2020
With this voyage, INS Jalashwa alone has so far repatriated around 2,700 Indians from the Maldives and Sri Lanka under Operation ‘Samudra Setu’.
On June 1, the vessel repatriated approximately 700 Indians from Colombo in Sri Lanka to Tuticorin in Tamil Nadu. This is the third trip to the Maldives by INS Jalashwa.
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The rescue mission is a part of Operation ‘Samudra Setu’ under the Vande Bharat Mission, which has so far facilitated the evacuation of nearly 2,700 people from Male twice on May 8 and May 16.