Foreign and Military Affairs
4,600 Chinese evacuated from Libya, 83 back home
Updated: 2011-02-24 16:41
(Xinhua)
A Chinese worker wipes away his tears after arriving Beijing Capital International Airport in Beijing, capital of China, Feb 24, 2011. [Photo/Xinhua] |
Another group of 40 took another commercial flight at around 5:30 pm (1530 GMT) Wednesday and arrived Shanghai Thursday afternoon on a flight from Egypt's northern city of Alexandria.
The 40 workers arrived in Shanghai Pudong International Airport at around 2:00 pm. They to ok flight QR888 of Qatar Airways, which departed from Alexandria on Wednesday.
Chinese workers evacuated from riot-torn Libya walk out of Shanghai Pudong International Airport in Shanghai, Feb 24, 2011.[Photo/Xinhua] |
They are workers with China Building Technique Group Co Ltd. They had been working in a university construction site in Tobruk, 500 km away from Libya's second largest city of Benghazi, the Chinese embassy in Egypt said.
CBTGC Vice-President Wang Jingfeng told Xinhua that currently the company has around 100 Chinese employees in Libya. Besides the 83 workers flown out of the region, nine workers evacuated from Libya remain in Egypt.
The riots in Libya have caused great property loss to CBTGC, with equipment, houses and cars damaged or wrecked at the company's site in Libya.
The 43 workers belong to China Changshu Construction Group Co LTD. On Thursday afternoon they will fly to Shanghai, two hours' drive from Changshu, a city in East China's Jiangsu province, Wang said.
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