India said on Sunday that it was taking steps to ensure safe evacuation of its nationals.

One Indian was missing and the embassy in Yemen’s camp office in Djibouti was working with local authorities and contacts to determine his whereabouts, the External Affairs Ministry said in a statement.

About 70 sailors from Gujarat have been stranded in crisis-hit Yemen for over 15 days and have appealed to the Indian government to rescue them.

According to a report by the CNN-IBN, one of the sailors in his audio message has spoken of very tough situation there as “no help has reached” them and they are being bombarded with warplanes. – Vahanvatta Association of Kutch and Mandavi president Haji Juneja. No help has reached us. My name is Sikandar.

They have lobbed three rockets and we somehow managed to save ourselves. “We are running here and there to save ourselves”, Sikandar adds in the message. Though at least 20 were initially reported to be killed, 14 were rescued alive later and four of them were admitted to a hospital in Hudaydah. “I don’t know what will happen to us because the airstrikes continue”, Wali, a resident of Kutch in Gujarat, said.

Yemen has been witnessing violence for several months now, amid Houthi rebel clashes with the government.

United Nations estimates that more than 4,500 people have been killed in the conflict since March.

The External Affairs Ministry had said on Friday that six Indians were killed after their boat came under Saudi-led air strikes in Yemen on September 8.

Named Asmar and Mustafa, 2 boats, touring 21 Indian got here beneath aerial assault on two days again, nevertheless, didn’t made it clear what the two boats have been doing in the strife-torn space, the official assertion stated.