The Ministry of External Affairs (MEA) has said there had been some disruptions following attacks in Saudi Arabia but maintained that there were no other connectivity issues and air traffic continued through airports across West Asia.
MEA spokesperson Randhir Jaiswal, while addressing a press briefing on Friday, said India had strongly condemned the attacks targeting civilian infrastructure in Saudi Arabia.Responding to a question on whether Indian citizens were seeking to return from West Asia in view of the recent attacks in Saudi Arabia, Jaiswal said, "There have been some disruptions, as you would have seen, because of the attacks in Saudi Arabia. We have strongly condemned those attacks on civilian infrastructure."
He added, "Other than that, I think...there are no other connectivity issues and there is movement of traffic via the airports in West Asia."
The MEA spokesperson was also asked about the latest figures on Indian citizens deported from the United Kingdom and the United States.
On this, Jaiswal said, "The other question you had about Indians being deported from UK and US, I had given you the figure. I don't have the latest, but you can refer to the figures that I had given to you some time back, a month back also, and I will update you further on that."
This comes as three Saudi citizens were killed and several others injured in two separate attacks targeting King Khalid International Airport in Riyadh on Thursday, Saudi Arabia’s General Authority of Civil Aviation (GACA) said in an official statement on Friday, while Saudia Airlines confirmed that one of its employees was killed in the incident. -ANI
