New Delhi, Dec. 1 -- Indians travelling to the UK have found themselves stranded at Kuwait airport for more than 13 hours on Sunday following an emergency landing. The Mumbai-Manchester flight was forced to make an emergency landing some two hours after taking off from its Bahrain stopover. Passengers reported seeing "the engine on fire" as smoke billowed out and the flight prepared for an emergency landing.

"We flew from Bahrain for Manchester but because of Squawk 0077 emergency we had to land at Kuwait but airport authority are saying that they will only provide hotels for British and EU citizen as they can get visa on arrival. Can you please intervene?" an X user asked the Ministry of External Affairs.

Indian officials however said ...