Team News Riveting
New Delhi, March 7
The special Indian Air Force (IAF) aircraft carrying Indian student Harjot Singh, who was shot in the Ukrainian capital Kyiv, landed here today evening.
Harjot Singh, 31, was shot four times on February 27 as one bullet hit his chest. He had boarded a cab for the western Ukrainian city of Lviv in a bid to escape Kyiv. He was accompanied by two of his friends.
The IAF flight C-17 Globemaster landed at the Hindon airbase on Monday evening at around 6.30, officials said. Minister of State for Civil Aviation General (retired) V K Singh and around 200 Indians, mainly students, also returned to India on the same flight.
Harjot was immediately shifted to the Army Hospital from the airbase. The Ministry of External Affairs had on Friday said that the government would bear the medical expenses of Harjot Singh.
On March 1, medical student Naveen SG from Karnataka was killed in shelling in the eastern Ukrainian city of Kharkiv when he ventured out to buy food for himself and his peers.
