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Planes carrying 480 Chinese nationals leave Egypt for home
Source: Xinhua |
February 1, 2011, Tuesday
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TWO planes, carrying a total of 480 Chinese nationals who were stranded in Egypt, took off from the Cairo airport early today, and are heading for China, according to the Chinese embassy in Egypt.
The planes, one dispatched by Air China International and the other by Hainan Airlines, left the Cairo International Airport at around 1:43 am and 2:23 am local time today.
Some 424 Chinese nationals are still stranded in the Cairo airport, according to a Chinese embassy source. Two more planes from China will arrive in Cairo at about 7 a.m. and 7:30 a.m. local time today, to bring the rest back home.
There are still another 300 Chinese who now stay in Cairo hotels and Egyptian tourist spots and need to return, said the source.
The Chinese government has promised that it would dispatch more planes to take stranded nationals back home.
A working taskforce, composed of officials from China's Foreign Ministry, National Tourism Administration, Ministry of Public Security and Civil Aviation Administration, are currently working with the Chinese embassy in Cairo to provide assistance to stranded Chinese in Egypt and to try to facilitate their early return to China.
Mass anti-government protests broke out across Egypt on January 25 and have continued for seven days. A large number of inbound and outbound international flights at the Cairo airport have been canceled in the past few days.
A Cairo airport source told Xinhua late yesterday that it was still unclear when flights to China would return to normal.
The planes, one dispatched by Air China International and the other by Hainan Airlines, left the Cairo International Airport at around 1:43 am and 2:23 am local time today.
Some 424 Chinese nationals are still stranded in the Cairo airport, according to a Chinese embassy source. Two more planes from China will arrive in Cairo at about 7 a.m. and 7:30 a.m. local time today, to bring the rest back home.
There are still another 300 Chinese who now stay in Cairo hotels and Egyptian tourist spots and need to return, said the source.
The Chinese government has promised that it would dispatch more planes to take stranded nationals back home.
A working taskforce, composed of officials from China's Foreign Ministry, National Tourism Administration, Ministry of Public Security and Civil Aviation Administration, are currently working with the Chinese embassy in Cairo to provide assistance to stranded Chinese in Egypt and to try to facilitate their early return to China.
Mass anti-government protests broke out across Egypt on January 25 and have continued for seven days. A large number of inbound and outbound international flights at the Cairo airport have been canceled in the past few days.
A Cairo airport source told Xinhua late yesterday that it was still unclear when flights to China would return to normal.
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