2023-04-29 13:33:36
Under the development of the civil war in Sudan, the PLA ships made two port calls to evacuate overseas Chinese. According to the latest official information, a total of 940 mainland citizens and 231 foreigners were evacuated from Port Sudan to Jeddah Port in Saudi Arabia, and 1,171 people were evacuated from Canada. , including 241 foreigners.
On the evening of the 29th, Tan Kefei, spokesperson of the Ministry of Defense of the Mainland, pointed out that the PLA Navy’s Nanning and Weishanhu ships evacuated 940 mainland citizens and 231 foreigners from Port Sudan to Jeddah Port in Saudi Arabia from April 26 to 29, Beijing time. .
According to Xinhua News Agency, the second batch of shipments berthed at Jeddah Port at 9:00 local time on the 29th (14:00 Beijing time on the 29th), including 272 mainland personnel in Sudan and 221 personnel from Pakistan, Brazil and other countries. At 10 o’clock on the 27th local time (15 o’clock on the 27th Beijing time), the first evacuated 678 people arrived in Jeddah Port, including 668 mainland citizens and 10 foreigners.
The troops for this evacuation mission are temporarily organized by the PLA guided missile destroyer Nanning and the comprehensive supply ship Weishanhu, which are carrying out the 43rd batch of escort missions. They carry 1 ship-borne helicopter and more than 490 mission officers and soldiers, including special forces. ten.
This evacuation is also the third time that the Chinese navy has dispatched warships to carry out overseas evacuation missions after the evacuation of overseas Chinese from Libya in 2011 and the evacuation of overseas Chinese from Yemen in 2015, and it is also the second time to evacuate by port.
According to public information, when the Libyan civil war broke out in 2011, there were 30,000 mainland citizens in Libya. The Communist Army sent four Air Force Il-76 planes to pick up and transport 1,655 people to Khartoum, the capital of Sudan; The Xuzhou ship arrived in the waters near Libya on March 2 to carry out the evacuation mission. In addition, a total of 35,860 people from the mainland and 2,100 foreigners were evacuated from Libya using civil and foreign charter flights, foreign cruise ships and merchant ships.
In the evacuation of overseas Chinese from Yemen in March 2015, the Linyi, Weifang and Weishanhu ships of the 19th batch of the PLA Navy’s escort fleet to the Gulf of Aden picked up 621 mainland citizens and 279 foreign citizens from 15 countries. For the first two evacuation missions, the mainland made many films such as “The Journey Back”, “Wolf Warrior 2”, and “Operation Red Sea” to describe the scene at that time.
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