14 Azerbaijani citizens evacuated from Lebanon

A plane with 94 passengers on board flying from Libya landed at the Boryspil airport (Kiev region) at 01:44 local time. A total of 14 Azerbaijani citizens were amongst the passengers, Ukrainian Foreign Ministry spokesman Oleksandr Dikusar told Interfax-Ukraine on Saturday night.

According to him, the aircraft Boeing-737 of Ukraine International Airlines flew from Tripoli (Libya) on Friday, Feb. 25 at 20:20 Kyiv time. The aircraft carried 94 passengers on board, including 50 Ukrainian citizens and 44 citizens of other states, including 19 - Russian Federation, 4 – Kazakhstan, 3 - Kyrgyzstan, 2 - Belarus, 1 - Bosnia and Herzegovina, and 1 - Turkey.

As known, an Il-76 aircraft carrying 163 passengers, including 125 Ukrainians and five Russians, from the Libyan capital city of Tripoli landed at Boryspil Airport at around 01:00 on Feb. 24.

There were 38 children and 47 women on board the aircraft, the Ukrainian Foreign Ministry's spokesman Oleksandr Dykusarov, told Interfax-Ukraine.

The passengers also include two citizens of Slovakia, eleven Poles, one Romanian, four citizens of Kazakhstan, one Hungarian, four Czechs and ten citizens of Azerbaijan.


/Trend/