India, June 18 -- India on Wednesday launched Operation Sindhu to evacuate its nationals from Iran following the deterioration of the security situation due to conflict with Israel, even as reports emerged that some Indian students were injured in an Israeli strike on a students' dormitory in Tehran.

As the first step under the operation, the Indian embassy in Tehran evacuated 110 Indian students from northern Iran and helped them cross over to Armenia by road on June 17, the external affairs ministry said in a statement. These students, a majority of them from Jammu and Kashmir, travelled to the Armenian capital of Yerevan and then left for India on a special flight on Wednesday afternoon.

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