Indian student shot at and injured in Ukraine to return tomorrow, says Union minister

Harjot Singh, a 31-year-old Indian pupil who was shot at whilst making an attempt to escape Kyiv in a taxi on February 27, will be returning to India on Monday, Union minister Gen (Retd) VK Singh stated on Sunday.

“Harjot Singh, an Indian countrywide who sustained bullet accidents in Kyiv and lost his passport, will return to India with us tomorrow,” tweeted the minister.

Indian officials stated that Harjot had acquired 4 bullets injuries, inclusive of one in the chest.

“We were in a cab to Lviv. We had been stopped at a barricade and suddenly it was once raining bullets. I idea this is the end. I am alive by means of god’s grace,” Harjot had said. The ministry of external affairs on Friday had announced that the authorities would endure all his scientific expenses.

Meanwhile, the authorities on Sunday said that India has so some distance evacuated about 16,000 Indian students from Ukraine via japanese European international locations considering that February 22. On Monday 1,500 more are expected be returned on eight one-of-a-kind flights Budapest (5), Suceva (2) and Bucharest (1).