SPAIN: A Spanish armed forces plane carrying 124 people evacuated from Tripoli, landed in Madrid on Friday, a Foreign
Ministry spokesman said. The evacuees included 40 Spaniards as well as Mexican, British, Canadian and
Portuguese nationals. Spain is planning the evacuation of a small number of Spaniards from outside Tripoli,
the spokesman said.
SYRIA: Syria has sent vessels to pick up Syrian nationals from different areas in Libya, in addition to continuing its flights
to Tripoli. Minister of Transport Yarub Badr said two ships have been sent so far.
TUNISIA: Tunisia had at least 30,000 nationals in Libya. At least 7,000 have been able to leave. Tunisia sent five flights to
Libya on Wednesday and two before that. Tunisia has scheduled a ferry to travel to Benghazi.
TURKEY: Libyan authorities declined permission for some 250 Turks to cross the border into Tunisia late on Thursday.
Turkey has evacuated 8,360 of its citizens on two ships and 26 planes, the prime minister's office said. It was
sending a further 12 planes to Libya on Friday, including eight military aircraft.
A military ship with a capacity of 1,500 passengers is expected to set sail on Friday from Benghazi for Marmaris
in southwest Turkey. Two ferries with a total capacity of 2,000 passengers were en route for Libya, carrying
food supplies and security and health personnel.
UNITED STATES: The State Department said on Friday that a U.S.-chartered ferry, Maria Delores, carrying hundreds of
Americans and other evacuees had left Tripoli for Malta after being delayed by high winds and choppy seas.
Aboard are more than 300 passengers, of whom more than half are U.S. citizens.
VIETNAM: Vietnam has evacuated about 1,300 of its citizens from Libya out of 10,482 living and working there. The first
300 evacuees will reach home late on Friday.
(Reporting by Reuters bureaux; Compiled and edited by David Cutler, London Editorial Reference Unit)
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