Out of the 607 passengers reaching India by two special Air India aircrafts from the war-torn Lebanon on Friday night, a majority are natives of Tamil Nadu.
There are 441 passengers hailing from Tamil Nadu, Minister of State for External Affairs E Ahamed said in New Delhi on Friday.
He said one of the two aircrafts took most of the evacuees belonging to Tamil Nadu to Chennai. It would land in Chennai with 342 passengers on board at 9:00 pm on Friday night. The other aircraft would land Mumbai with the remaining passengers at 11:00 pm.
The first batch of evacuees being flown in included six from Nepal. All them would be flown to Mumbai.
The others included 53 from Delhi, 42 from Maharashtra, 10 from Kerala, six from Punjab, two from Hyderabad and one from Kolkata.
The destinations in the case of 46 passengers are not known, he said.
In one of the largest single evacuation exercises during the nine-day old West Asian crisis, India on Thursday pulled out 607 of its nationals from Lebanon to Larnaca (Cyprus) for being airlifted to India.
The aircrafts, which left Mumbai early on Friday morning, left Larnaca in Cyprus where INS Mumbai brought the stranded Indians from Beirut Thursday.
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