00:27All over, how was your experience?
00:32I think for me, it was not very scary because I was with my closest friends and my family.
00:38But if we were here alone, we would be very scared.
00:42And of course, our flight cancelled and yesterday, when a drone attacked in Riyadh's embassy, we were very scared.
00:48Because a U.S. embassy strike is very terrifying and very scary.
00:53Did the Indian embassy and other airport authorities support you?
00:58We had complete support from the Indian Ministry of External Affairs.
01:03And we knew that if we reached out to the embassies, we would get support.
01:07I was constantly in contact with somebody who was connecting us to the things that the Maharashtra government was doing
01:12for us.
01:12So we were not at any point left feeling that the Indian government was going to leave us alone.
01:17Did you face any challenges to communicating with your family or friends in India?
01:22No, no, no. Not at all.
01:23WhatsApp was working.
01:25IMO was working.
01:26We were able to connect with everybody.
01:27Fake news is a lot of problem.
01:29They were like, I don't know where or where they were attacked.
01:31We were able to get back home.
01:32But we were able to get back home.
01:34But we were able to get back home.
01:35My name is Zania Patel.
01:36IMO is Nida Fatima.
01:38Okay.
01:38What was the place of the family?
01:40How many people have gone there?
01:41How many days have you been there?
01:43We had a short trip.
01:44We had 7 people just for 5 days.
01:474 days in Mecca and 1 day in Medina.
01:49Our flight was from Medina.
01:51Our flight was from Medina.
01:51But because our flight was from Medina, it was a bit of stress that we will come back.
01:56So we were able to book flights from Jeddah.
02:00Then again, as she said, we had to travel all the way to Jeddah.
02:03But again, there were no facilities provided to us from Medina to Jeddah.
02:07And we had to take our own private cars to Jeddah.
02:12Okay.
02:13Are you rebuilt back in India?
02:15How do you feel now?
02:16I mean, yes.
02:18Obviously, the rest of the families were there.
02:19We were quite relieved.
02:22We were able to get back together.
02:23We were able to get back together.
02:25We were able to get back together.
02:27We were able to get back together.
02:27After we reached Jeddah, it was all fine.
02:30Immigration and everything was all clear.
02:33The flight was also on time and everything.
02:34So that was quite a relief.
02:36Were you worried about your safety during the travel from Medina to India?
02:41Medina to India, not really, because we knew there was nothing as far going on in Medina,
02:47Makkah.
02:47Those areas were safe.
02:48It's just Riyadh, etc.
02:49There was a lot of stress.
02:51But other than that, everything was quite handled by the government as well.
02:56Okay.
02:57Especially to the travelers coming for the pilgrimage.
03:00We all had a lot of facilities.
03:02So we were safe.
03:03We were quite content.
03:05From where did your flight coming start from?
03:08Jeddah.
03:09Jeddah?
03:09Yeah.
03:09Jeddah was in Mumbai.
03:10Yes.
03:11Medina Sheer After 25 weeks
03:14I was really worried about the arrival of Medina.
03:15Just when we started from Medina,
03:19we told Indigo that the flight was cancelled.
03:23In 24 hours was cleared for us,
03:25Indigo told us that flight is cancelled.
03:27But we didn't say anything about them.
03:29Our next thing is what we need to pay for.
03:31Because we had a ticket book.
03:32We were responsible for you.
03:33You should tell to ask you about the passenger next thing.
03:36What is it next to you?
03:37Okay, we did what we did.
03:39We checked from Jeddah Airport.
03:40We had a ticket booked in Saudi Airlines and we had a ticket booked there.
03:45The ticket students were available.
03:50My non-Muslim friends supported me very much.
03:54They told me that at least you can reach the Indian embassy.
03:59We had messages from the Indian embassy that will help from Mumbai government.
04:04My friends were telling us that we didn't have any attention to the airport.
04:13If there will be some flights cancelled again, we will talk to the embassy.
04:18I thought that we will help from the embassy.
04:23In the Gulf country, the war situation was there.
04:29What was your first feeling?
04:31What happened to the family?
04:33Back to India.
04:34Back to India.
04:35Our country.
04:37That's our idea.
04:40Many people told us that we would stay there.
04:43But we had a ticket where we would get our ticket.
04:46First of all, we would go back to India.
04:48Because we would save our country.
04:50My friends who are non-Muslims, they told me that they would support me.
04:54If you are in the Indian embassy, you can contact me if there is any problem.
04:59That's why we tried to travel by road.
05:02Six hours, six to seven hours.
05:05We went to the airport.
05:06Because we wanted to contact the Indian embassy.
05:09Sure, we helped Indian embassy.
05:11That's why we wanted to help you.
05:11The SSID.
05:15I thought that this is a big deal.
05:18That's a big deal.
05:18The SSID helped you.
05:19The SSID helped you.
05:19The SSID helped you.
05:20The SSID helped you.
05:23You said SID helped you.
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