More than 50 Indian nationals have crossed from Iran to neighboring Armenia and Azerbaijan, taking the total number of people who travelled through land border crossings in recent days to more than 700, the external affairs ministry said on Tuesday.
The Indian embassy in Tehran has been helping Indian nationals, most of them students and pilgrims, to cross over to Armenia and Azerbaijan through land borders because Iranian airspace remains closed.
Among the 550 Indians who entered Armenia in recent days were 284 pilgrims, and 130 of them returned to India on Tuesday, external affairs ministry spokesperson Randhir Jaiswal told a media briefing.
161 Indian seafarers had been repatriated from West Asia since Monday, and 611 Indian seafarers on 22 merchant vessels located to the west of the Strait of Hormuz were safe, Rajesh Kumar Sinha, special secretary in the shipping ministry, told the briefing.
