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Joseph Chacko, his wife Simi Jose and his two children came back to Kerala from strife-torn Libya on Thursday morning. While the Centre and the state government is busy vying for credit for their safe return, the people who have returned from the harrowing experience have a different tale to tell.
While Kerala CM Oommen Chandy said that the centre had not helped Indians in Libya, Sushma Swaraj retaliated saying the Centre had paved the way for many evacuations.
The hospital that Joseph and the others were working for used to transfer their salaries to the bank and when they approached the bank to withdraw their salaries the bank said they did not have enough funds to let them retrieve three years’ salary.
According to Baby, a Libyan military official was the only person who helped. He let them stay in his apartment and provided them with food and other essentials.
Thomas and Lisy Thomas, another couple who escaped from Libya, also had similar complaints regarding the Indian government and the Embassy.
The first batch of 18 Keralites, evacuated from Libya, uniting with their families and relatives on their arrival at Kochi International Airport on Thursday.
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