DUSHANBE, April 23, 2015, Asia-Plus — The Tajik Embassy in Moscow says eight other Tajik nationals have been evacuated from the conflict-town Yemen.
Mohammad Egamzod, a spokesman for the Tajik Embassy in Moscow, says eight other Tajik nationals were evacuated from Yemen by Russian planes yesterday night.
Meanwhile, Russian media outlets report that two IL-62s of Russia’s Emergencies Ministry carrying 300 people evacuated from Yemen, including citizens of Russia, Ukraine, Belarus, Uzbekistan, Yemen, the United States, Cuba, Armenia, Tajikistan and Kazakhstan, landed at the Chkalovsk airfield in the Moscow oblast yesterday night.
The Tajik authorities say there were around 200 Tajik medical workers in Yemen before the current fighting started.
Tajik Foreign Ministry said recently that the Tajik Embassy in Doha (Qatar) is trying to relocate Tajik citizens in Yemen to safer areas before returning them home with the help of Russian authorities and companies.
Five Gulf states, Egypt, Pakistan, Morocco and several other Sunni Muslim countries launched a series of airstrikes against the Shia Houthi rebels, who had gained control of the capital and large swathes of territory in the west of the country on March 25.
