Tourists stranded on Yemen island to leave starting Wednesday: official
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Dubai: More than 400 tourists stranded on a Yemeni island after flights were halted due to fighting on the mainland will be able to fly out starting o...
Dubai: More than 400 tourists stranded on a Yemeni island after flights were halted due to fighting on the mainland will be able to fly out starting on Wednesday, a Yemeni airport official told AFP.
Over the past few days, flights in and out of Yemen had been largely restricted following a flare-up of violence between rival armed factions.
An official at the airport on the island of Socotra told AFP on Tuesday that the 416 stranded tourists would be able to leave from Wednesday via Yemenia Airways flights to Aden, then on to Jeddah in Saudi Arabia.
The airport in Aden on the mainland has been functional since Sunday after disruptions that lasted for several days.
The stranded tourists had arrived from the UAE's Abu Dhabi airport via Air Arabia, an Emirati airline.
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