Imphal: A youth from Manipur’s Mapao Zingtun village in Senapati district has been reportedly stranded in the Republic of Kazakhstan for the last seven days after the connecting flight from South Korea got stuck in Almaty following the closure of the airport.
For several days, flight services at Almaty has been disrupted due to the volatile political crisis provoked by the doubling of LPG prices in Kazakhstan.
As per reports in local media, Luiramsing Zimik, who is studying Theology at Hoseo University in South Korea’s Seoul, was returning to India via Kazakhstan on January 5 on an Asiana OZ 577 flight. He was supposed to leave for New Delhi the following day, on January 6, by Air Asiana KC 907. However, his flight got cancelled due to the closure of the airport at Almaty.
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