Emergencies Ministry brings Kazakh citizens home from Cairo
12:53, 2 February 2011
ASTANA. February 2. KAZINFORM The Ministry of Emergencies is continuing to evacuate the Kazakh citizens from Egypt; the Ministry's press service reports.
"TU-154M airliner of the Kazakh Ministry of Emergencies left Almaty for Cairo for evacuating our citizens at 9.15 a.m. today", the message reads.
The special flight brought home 139 Kazakhstani citizens including 34 children as well as employees of the diplomatic missions in Cairo and their families from Cairo at 00.45 tonight.
The citizens on board were accompanied by doctors of the Disaster Medicine Center and rescuers of the Republican Operative Rescue Troop.