Indian student injured in Kyiv shooting to be brought back to India
Indian government has announced that it will bear all the medical expenses of Harjot Singh on his return to India.
Indian student, Harjot Singh was evacuated from Poland after he was shot during a firing in Kyiv, while he was trying to escape the war-torn capital city of Ukraine. He landed in India along with 200 others abroad an Air force C-17 flight on Monday, Mar. 7, 2022, at 7PM IST.
General VK Singh, who was in-charge of the evacuation operations in Poland, tweeted a video of him comforting Harjot who was seen in a stretcher at the Poland airport. The tweet read, “ With about 200 of us taking off from Rzeszow on the @IAF_MCC C-17 today, around 3000 will have been evacuated from Poland aboard 14 flights. Impressed by the resilience shown by #IndianStudents and the way their evacuation has been made possible by our people #OperationGanga.”
One of the passengers on the @iaf_mcc C-17 today will be Harjot Singh.
— General Vijay Kumar Singh (@Gen_VKSingh) March 7, 2022
Let me assure the country that he is in good hands. The worst is behind him. I look forward to seeing him reunited with his family.
Hope he recuperates well and fast.#OperationGanga #NoIndianLeftBehind pic.twitter.com/TGlKa9EP8V