Ras Jedir, Tunisia: Thousands of Egyptians who have been seeking to flee strife-torn Libya for days were being airlifted out Sunday after Tunisia’s refusal to let them in sparked clashes at the border.
Buses picked up dozens of them on Saturday afternoon at the Ras Jedir border crossing to take them to Libya’s Jerba airport, 100 kilometres (60 miles) north, where flights were to evacuate them to Egypt, AFP journalists said.
Another 100 were expecting a coach to collect them during the day Sunday to transfer them to the airport.
Egypt’s civil aviation minister, Hossam Kamal, said 1,796 people had been taken to Jerba and another 1,355 were scheduled to be transferred there on Sunday, when five flights to Egypt were planned, the state news agency reported…
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