By: Deep Gazmer and Nisha Chettridarjeeling / Kalimpong: Three workers at the Canadian Embassy in Kabul, residents of Darjeeling District, were flown to Dubai on Tuesday, bringing hope in the region from which, it was feared, as many as 80 by: several accounts, mostly Hiring as a security guard – stranded in a torn country with violence.
The former Samir Pradhan army, from Siliguri’s Shastri Nagar, landed at Dubai Airport at around 1:30 a.m.
on Tuesday with members of the Embassy.
With them was Harka Bahadur Thapa, a resident of Changshang Mareybong in Bijanbari, who was assisted by the company he worked to reach American airbase in Kabul, from where he took a flight to Dubai.
Kalimpong Resident Chandra Kumar, other security guards, also managed to reach Dubai on Tuesday after uncertainty day.
Toi managed to speak briefly with the first two Evakares after they landed in Dubai.
“We are safe,” Pradhan said, added that some others – the population of Kalimpong and Darjeeling – still stuck in a camp in Kabul.
Thora who was relieved said it was waiting and uncertainty was painful and frightening.
“We don’t know whether we will be evacuated at all.
The situation in Kabul is very frightening.
I am grateful that the company I did with our evacuation,” he said, adding that they would travel to India through London, because there was no direct flight from Dubai .
For some other families, every time it is filled with anxiety and fear.
Aloobari Resident Bandana Rai Thapa (38), Kumar’s wife, maybe it will now be able to sleep for a while after getting the news that he managed to reach Dubai.
For most of the day, he felt very desperate that even a nap proved impossible since Sunday.
He managed to talk to him once – it was also, for a while – on Tuesday.
He panicked to call the number since then, but without luck.
Every further effort ends with failure to connect.
When they last spoke, Kumar, who also worked at the Canadian Embassy, was still hit at the airport.
“I can only talk for a few minutes this morning,” Bandana said that day.
“He said he was waiting at the airport to be evacuated.
Since then, I have not been able to contact him.” Their 14-year-old girl, Shreya, was also worried.
“Every time he goes through a terrible visual chaos at the airport on TV or on social media, he breaks down.” Mona Chettri, from Bong Bong Bong Bustee, Kalimpong, said her husband Yadu Chettri was stranded in Afghanistan with around 80 people from Kalimpong, Darjeeling and Kenkeong.
“I talked to him some time ago.
He was limited to his room, because it was not safe to step out.
He told me the rescue flight could not land in Afghanistan on Tuesday, and that he and the others could not be evacuated.
I am very worried, “He said.
Yadu was also a former Army army who had worked as a security guard in Afghanistan since December last year.
Roshan Lama, senior member of the Citizens Darjeeling Group Initiative and the Edwards Foundation NGO, said: “We have gotten calls of distress from their relatives trapped in Kabul.
We have opened number – 8509126800 – to collect information, which we will continue to the Ministry of External.
“Darjeeling and Kalimpong District Administrative Senior Officials said they asked the details, and would immediately contact MEA officials.
80 of Darjeeling was feared stranded in Afghanistan
