Foreign and Military Affairs
1,300 Chinese nationals safely out of Kyrgyzstan
By Jia Xu (chinadaily.com.cn)
Updated: 2010-06-17 11:28
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The ninth charter flight has taken the last 191 stranded Chinese nationals out of the violence-hit Osh in southern Kyrgyzstan to Urumqi, capital of China's northwestern Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region on Tuesday, news.cn reported on Wednesday.
So far, 1,300 Chinese nationals have been safely evacuated from the Kyrgyz cities to China, which marks the end of the Chinese government's first round of rescue work. From June 14 to 16, China dispatched nine charter flights to Osh, evacuating Chinese nationals away from the area.
A representative surnamed Liu from the Chinese embassy in Kyrgyzstan also said that a working team from the embassy has left for Jalalabad and Batken, both in southern Kyrgyzstan, to evacuate Chinese nationals stranded in the two regions. "Evacuations are being carried out in good order at present," Liu said.
