In accordance with its commitment to remove stranded Indians from the violently unstable Sudan, India returned another group of 229 individuals on Sunday.
A day after 365 individuals returned from the African nation to Delhi, a new group of evacuees landed in Bengaluru.
"#OperationKaveri One more flight brings back 229 passengers to Bengaluru," External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar wrote on Twitter.
As many as 125 people among the 229 evacuees hail from Karnataka, according to a statement issued by Karnataka State Disaster Management Authority Commissioner Manoj Rajan. From the latest group of evacuees, 29 were quarantined, he said.
Since April 27, 255 people from Karnataka have returned to the state in four batches, according to Rajan, including 134 from the Shivamogga district and 53 from Mysuru.
According to official statistics, 1,954 Indians have now been returned to India from Sudan.
In two batches on Friday, 754 people arrived in India as part of the evacuation mission.
The Indians were returned from Jeddah, in Saudi Arabia, where India had established a transit camp for the evacuees.
On Wednesday, the first group of 360 evacuees flew back to New Delhi on a commercial flight. On Thursday, an Indian Air Force (IAF) C17 Globemaster carrying the second group of 246 Indian evacuees touched down in Mumbai.
India has been transporting its residents from Khartoum's combat zones and other difficult places to Port Sudan as part of "Operation Kaveri," where they are then transported to Jeddah by heavy-lift transport aircraft of the Indian Air Force and by ships of the Indian Navy.
The Indians are being transported from Jeddah back to their homes through either commercial planes or IAF aircraft.
The Indian embassy in Khartoum has been working with the separate control centres that India has established in Jeddah and Port Sudan, as well as keeping in touch with the MEA's Delhi headquarters.
The army of Sudan and a paramilitary group have been engaged in deadly warfare that has reportedly claimed 400 lives.
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