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More than 350 Indians evacuated from Yemen arrived in Kochi and Mumbai in the early hours today in two Indian Air Force planes. An Air Force C-17 Globemaster carrying 168 Indians, including nurses, landed in Kerala's Kochi at around 2 am. Another aircraft carrying 190 Indian nationals arrived in Mumbai at around 3:25 am. A foreign ministry spokesperson said 206 evacuees belong to Kerala, 40 are from Tamil Nadu, 31 from Maharashtra, 23 from West Bengal and 22 from Delhi. The Indians, including 101 women and 28 children, were rescued from the port city of Aden in Yemen on Tuesday night in naval warship INS Sumitra, which "sailed into a barrage of bombs" in the dead of night. They were taken yesterday to Djibouti across the Red Sea, nine hours from Aden. The Indians were received there by uni