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Fifty Lankans to be repatriated

from Mohammed Rassoldeen in Riyadh

Fifty of the 147 Sri Lankans stranded in Saudi Arabia will be repatriated to their homeland on Monday, the Consul General of the Sri Lankan Consulate in Jeddah Abdul Cader Mohamed Ibrahim said. The Sri Lankans who were on a boat which drifted to Saudi Arabian waters while they were going to Italy and were rescued by the Saudi naval authorities near the port city of Yanbu in the western coast of the Kingdom on July 4.

The stranded Sri Lankans were subsequently housed in a camp of the Yanbu Port authorities where they are being well looked after by the Saudi government.

Explaining the mode of repatriation, Ibrahim told the Daily News that the first fifty among the stranded Sri Lankans will be sent by SriLankan Airlines which would leave from King Khalid International Airport, in Riyadh on Monday.

The relatives of the 50 people, he said, have paid the cost of the airfare from Saudi Arabia to the Foreign Ministry in Colombo. He said that the cost of the repatriation fees including the airfare from the Yanbu Domestic Airport will cost a passenger Rs. 40,000.

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