Kerala seeks special flight to bring back nurses

August 01, 2014 21:51

Kerala today urged the Centre to immediately arrange a special flight for passage of the Indian nurses who had left strife-torn Libya to neighbouring Tunisia to come back home.

In a letter to External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj,Chief Minister Oommen Chandy said 58 nurses had already left for Tunisia from Libya by road. Another 48 nurses had expressed their willingness to leave Libya.

In the prevailing circumstances it would take at least 10 days for them to catch normal flights from Tunisia to get back home, the CM wrote. Considering this, the Centre should arrange a special flight to take them home from Tunisia free of cost, Chandy said.

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