Vande Bharat Mission: 331 stranded Indians from UK reach Hyderabad

As part of biggest ever off- shore evacuation drive of Indian citizens under Vande Bharat Mission, an Air India flight carrying 331 people stuck in UK, landed at international airport here on Tuesday.

national carrier, a Boeing 773 aircraft from UK arrived at 02.21 AM, airport sources said. Later, same aircraft departed with 87 passengers to  US via Delhi.

passengers were serviced through fully sanitized international arrivals of main passenger terminal. airport authorities h fully sanitised and fumigated international arrivals and entire stretch right from aerobridge to arrivals ramp.

All passengers and aircraft crew were brought from aircraft in a batch of 20-25 people each.  Each passenger or crew member was screened by rmal cameras positioned at aerobridge exit under as per directives of Ministry of Health and Family Welfare prior to Immigration formalities.

After health screening of passengers, CISF personnel in ir protective gears escorted group of passengers to immigration clearance, y said. Till w, GMR Hyderab international airport has handled arrivals of four evacuation flights from various countries including US, UK, Kuwait, UAE repatriating over 750 Indian citizens stranded off-shore. All se passengers were taken for quarantine at designated places by Telangana government upon ir arrival here.