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Sixty-year-old Goneh Solomon Raj near Hyderabad with his six friends connected a four-day vacation to Bahrain, small knowing that their stay would beryllium abruptly extended successful the shadiness of the warfare successful West Asia (Middle East), betwixt US-Israel and Iran.
Like him, determination are astatine slightest 100 different Telugu speaking radical — galore of them connected tourer visas, who are present struck successful the war-torn West Asia with small accusation astir erstwhile the flights to antithetic destinations would resume.
“Our travel began connected February 24 arsenic we landed successful Manama, filled with enthusiasm to research the beaches of Manama and different places of interests. We had small inkling that things would crook for the worse arsenic we reached the airdrome to committee our instrumentality flight. Four passengers earlier america were handed implicit the boarding passes and arsenic our crook came, the hose unit said they had been instructed to halt each check-ins,” Mr. Solomon Raj, who is simply a wide caput of Telangana United Pastors and Christians Association, told The Hindu from Manama connected Monday (March 2, 2026) afternoon.
According to the stranded tourists, determination was abrupt aerial strikes connected the U.S. Defence bases successful Bahrain and sirens continued to blare. “We were wholly shaken arsenic the airdrome authorities asked each the passengers to vacate the premises and unreserved retired and instrumentality structure successful harmless places. We had checked retired of the edifice and had nary hint connected however to grip the situation,” Mr. Solomon Raj said.
His friends, Vijaya Bhaskar Deverkonda, Paul Raju Kaligithi, Kanapala Vinnaiah and Benjamin Samuel Marpu and Prem Jonnakutti managed to talk to immoderate Telugu expats successful Manana, who are moving there. “The Telugu expats went retired of mode to guarantee that we were taken to a edifice successful a residential country successful Manama. We are present stuck successful the edifice with small accusation coming successful from the Indian Embassy connected erstwhile the concern mightiness calm down,” 1 of the idiosyncratic from the seven-member radical said.
They said desperate, hapless and confused Telugu tourists ran from pillar to station successful the airdrome pleading with the authorities to let them wrong the airport. “We aboriginal realised that each those, who managed to get the boarding passes, were told that aerial abstraction implicit Middle East was closed for flights and they were turned back,”
The tourists lamented that the Indian Embassy successful Bahrain was incapable to springiness immoderate due effect nor was the hose which was expected to alert them taking immoderate steps.
The stranded Indians person urged the Telangana and Andhra Pradesh Governments to instrumentality steps to bring them backmost from the strife torn Middle East astatine the earliest.
