Third-year medical student J. Anusha Bhat is the first resident of Mangaluru to return from war-torn Ukraine on March 3.
Talking to reporters outside Mangaluru International Airport, Ms. Bhat said she and other students were confused in the absence of a clear advisory to return to India. They decided to stay back in the university as the ‘step one examination of their medical course was on’. The area they were staying in was not affected by the war, she added.
On the war began, she and other students contacted a travel agent who arranged for a bus to the border town of Chernivtsi. From Chernivtsi, they made it to the Romanian border on February 27 morning. “We walked about two kilometres by foot to the border checkpost.”
