Kochi: Eighteen Keralites, who were trapped in the crisis-ridden Libya, returned home on Thursday.
They were stranded amid escalating fighting in the country and did not have proper food or water for the past 47 days.
Their families had demanded evacuation after the death of a Kerala nurse and her son in shelling at their house in Sabratha in March.
While confirming the nurse's death on March 26, External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj had renewed her call to Indians abroad to move out of conflict zones.
She had then said there were 26 more Indians working in the Zawiya hospital.
The Norka-Roots has opened a help desk at the airport for the people returning from the conflict-torn country.