Three more Indians return home from restive Libya

Harrowing ordeals of three Indians, who were struck in strife-torn Libya, ended on Saturday as they returned home after going through an agonising journey.

Aman Sharma, a resident of Ambala City, who was employed in a cement factory as an engineer along with two of his colleagues in Libya returned this evening.

His colleague Bobby Sharma is a resident of Sirhind (Punjab) while Vipin Kumar hails from Chandigarh.

The three were employed in a cement factory at Zelton City, around 400 km away from Tripoli.

Aman Sharma told reporters that the administration of the cement factory lured Indians with promise of doubling their salaries if they opted to stay back.

He said that it was only after the intervention of Indian embassy they could return home.

He said that around 50 Indian employees of the factory were brought in a bus to Tripoli from where they were brought to India through air route.

Sharma claimed that on way to Tripoli they were stopped at various 'nakas' (barriers) and the army personnel took their dollars, gold chains and rings and even the mobile phones.

"The army personnel indulged in looting of foreigners," he alleged.

Two other youths Bobby Sharma and Vipin Kumar said that after the unrest the cooking gas supply in their factory campus was stopped and they were cooking their meals on wood.

"There was no supply of vegetables for the last one month and they were on rice and pulse provided by the factory mess," Vipin Kumar said.