Under-14 Girls Indian Football Team Stuck In Nepal To Be Evacuated On Priority : Sushma Swaraj

26 April, New Delhi

India today said that it would evacuate on priority 18 members of the country’s Under-14 girls football team which is stuck in Nepal following a massive earthquake.

In a tweet, External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj said, we will evacuate India’s U-14 girls football team on priority. The scared Indian girls and two support staff had decided to sleep outside their rooms at Hotel View Bhrikuti in Kathmandu for the fear of further aftershocks.

They were practicing in the stadium for the third-place play-off against Iran when the earthquake shook the venue and adjoining areas yesterday. The Indian team had earlier lost to hosts Nepal in the semifinals on Friday.

Coach Maymol Rocky said that the team Manager Sapna has spoken to Indian embassy people but they have asked the players to come to the Kathmandu airport so that they can be airlifted by military planes sent by India. An AIFF official in New Delhi had said that the team will be brought back to India tomorrow by the military aircraft.