The Nigerian government has commenced evacuation Nigerians in Iran, with officials accompanying them across the Armenian border as the United States of America (USA) and Israel’s war with Iran continues.
Penpushing reports that Head of the Nigeria in Diaspora Commission (NiDCOM), Abike Dabiri-Erewa, made this known in a post explaining that citizens willing to leave are being safely escorted out of the country through the border.
The Commission boss added that Nigerian officials are waiting at the border to receive nationals fleeing the ongoing war, adding that no Nigerian casualties have been recorded.
“Willing Nigerians are being escorted across the Armenian border by officials of the Nigerian embassy in Iran for safe passage. No Nigerian in Iran has been affected by the war as officials remain at the border to receive all who went to leave #israeliranwar #wariniran’, she said.
Penpushing further reports that Dabiri-Erewa in the statement, did not provide the exact number of Nigerians in Iran or the number of people who had already been evacuated, however, the evacuation efforts come 11 days into the war that has caused the death of over 1,300 people, and injured and displaced several others.
The Iranian Ministry of Health, United States of America (USA) and Israeli strikes have killed more than 1,300 people in Iran, with over 12,000 others injured, with record showing that the victims’ ages ranged from eight months to 88 years old.
Penpushing also reports that it equally pointed out that about 200 women are among those killed, including the 168 Minab elementary school girls, and similarly, about 55 healthcare workers were wounded and 11 killed, including four physicians, two nurses, and three emergency workers.
The Israel’s health ministry equally reported that at least 13 Israelis have been killed and 1,929 others wounded due to barrages of Iranian fire into the country since the war began, while eight United States of America (USA) soldiers have been confirmed dead.
Penpushing reports Lebanon has reported 394 deaths, including 83 children, caused by Israeli attacks, stressing that more than half a million people have been displaced during a week of fighting between Israel and Hezbollah.
The President of United States of America(USA) Donald Trump on Monday said that the war with Iran will be over very soon, but made it clear it won’t be this week, while the Iranian Revolutionary Guards (IRGC), in response to Trump, said Iranians, not the Americans, would determine the end of the war.
Penpushing further reports that spokesperson for Iran Foreign Ministry Esmaeil Baghaei also declared that there was no room to discuss a ceasefire while military attacks by the America and Israel continue.
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