Indians in strife-torn Libya to return soon
Monday, 15/09/2014
http://www.tribuneindia.com/2014/20140915/punjab.htm#22
Hoshiarpur : Eight Indian workers stuck in a factory at Tripoli in Libya due to the ongoing violence will return soon. Officials of the Indian Embassy are in contact with them. They told The Tribune that the workers would be brought back to India in a couple of days.
The embassy has arranged for their return from the neighbouring Tunisia as Tripoli Airport was blown off by anarchists.
Sources said the Libyan factory they were stuck in was not letting them return. They were contacted by the Indian Embassy after the matter was taken up by Avinash Rai Khanna, Rajya Sabha MP, with the Ministry of Foreign affairs.
One of the workers Rajinder Singh is a local resident. He had gone to Libya for two years. He is working in Al Brothers factory. His cousin Gagandeep said the owners were not letting them go till their contract was over. He said one of workers was critically ill and he was not getting any medical aid. He alleged they were not even getting proper food.
Gagandeep said they had received a call from Libya and Rajinder had told them that they would return soon.
