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Military aircraft bringing back 211 S. Koreans, foreigners from Saudi Arabia amid Mideast conflict

By The Korea Herald

A South Korean military transport aircraft is bringing home 204 nationals from Saudi Arabia, officials said Sunday, in the first airlift evacuation using a military plane since the conflict began in the Middle East late last month. A KC-330 Cygnus multirole aerial tanker carrying 204 South Koreans and seven others of foreign nationalities departed from Riyadh on Saturday and is expected to land at Seoul Air Base in Seongnam, south of the capital, on Sunday afternoon. The operation, named "Desert