130 Kazakhstanis to be evacuated from Egypt
17:50, 1 February 2011
ASTANA. February 1. KAZINFORM President Nursultan Nazarbayev has charged to provide assistance to the Kazakhstani citizens in Egypt due to the unstable situation in this country, the press service of the Emergencies Ministry informs.
At the request of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs the Emergencies Ministry sent TU-154M airliner to Cairo at 05:12 today for evacuation of the Kazakhstani citizens staying in Egypt.
The plane with the employees of the Disaster Medicine Center and rescuers of the Republican Operative Rescue Troop on board landed in Cairo at 11:13 today. 130 Kazakhstanis are expected to be evacuated in total.