New Delhi: About 70 Indian students stuck in Kyrgystan will have to wait through the weekend to get back home as their chartered flight from Kyrgyz capital of Bishkek to Delhi has been cancelled on Saturday. Now they will have to wait for two days more since the flight can't depart before Monday.
A private airline broker had collected 350 dollars each for a ticket from the students. But the broker could not get permission from the Indian government for the flight on Saturday on some technicality. The Indian embassy sources said the flight will depart only on Monday.
"They have not told us any details. They are saying that there was some technical fault in the Moscow flight number and had to change it," said a student who had paid to the broker.
Money was collected and names were noted down. But the students were not issued tickets.
Meanwhile, Kyrgyzstan's interim President said that the death toll from the ethnic clashes that have rocked the country's south could be near 2,000, as she made her first visit to a riot-hit town since the unrest broke out.
Kyrgyz Health Ministry officials put the number of killed in rampages, led mainly by ethnic Kyrgyz, at 191.
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