Seoul, March 15 A South Korean military transport aircraft is bringing home 204 nationals from Saudi Arabia, officials said Sunday, in the first airlift evacuation using a military plane since the conflict began in the Middle East late last month.
A KC-330 Cygnus multirole aerial tanker carrying 204 South Koreans and seven foreign nationals departed from Riyadh on Saturday (local time) and is expected to land at Seoul Air Base in Seongnam, south of the capital, on Sunday afternoon (Seoul time), Yonhap news agency reported.
The operation, codenamed “Desert Shine,” came as thousands of South Korean nationals remain stranded in the Middle East due to flight disruptions as the conflict between US-Israeli forces and Iran has escalated into a wider regional war. See More/Details