19 students from Kyrgyzstan back home after 4-day arduous journey

After a marathon four-day journey spanning three countries to flee violence in Kyrgyzstan, five youths from Madhya Pradesh, among a group of 19 Indian medical students, finally arrived home on Sunday.
Ravi Sarathe, Vivek Sharma and Rohit Panchal from Ujjain, Chetan Malviya from Barwani, and Kushagra Sawaner from Khargone are now worried for their friends back in Bishkek, especially those living in rented apartments as they have no security. Sawaner said he could return only with the help of the Indian embassy.
Chetan, in his eighth semester of MBBS, had posted a video few days earlier, pleading with Indian govt and MP CM Mohan Yadav to evacuate them. “We reached Bishkek airport on May 22 but were not allowed to enter. I hired a cab for Almaty in Kazakhstan, 425 km away, with two students from Bharatpur and Dausa in Rajasthan,” Chetan said.
They arrived in Almaty on May 23, only to find there were no flights. “So, we left for Tashkent, 815 km away, on May 24. We had to wait there 20 hours for a flight to Delhi,” he said.
“It was a nightmare. Overnight, the behaviour of locals changed and they refused to offer help,” said Ravi. Many universities in Kyrgyzstan have switched to online classes due to the violence. Foreign students are barred from stepping out of their hostels or rooms.
Chetan said he has exams from Aug 15, which he will appear online. He hoped that all 1,200 MP students would be back home by June 5.