AN INDIAN NATIONAL DIED IN THE ISRAELI BOMBARDMENT OF LEBANON, AN INDIAN OFFICIAL SAID FRIDAY, ACCORDING TO DPA. THE MAN, DEVESH KUMAR SWAIN, HAD GONE MISSING WITH THREE OTHER INDIANS WHEN THE GLASS FACTORY AT WHICH THEY WORKED WAS HIT BY ISRAELI BOMBS THREE DAYS AGO. "WE HAVE NOW RECEIVED INFORMATION THAT HE IS DEAD," INDIA'S EXTERNAL AFFAIRS MINISTRY SPOKESMAN NAVTEJ SARNA SAID. THE THREE OTHERS WERE LATER FOUND IN HOSPITAL. ONE OF THE VICTIMS, KALPANATH SINGH YADAV, WHO HAD RECEIVED MINOR INJURIES, WAS EVACUATED THURSDAY, INDIA'S PTI NEWS AGENCY REPORTED. THE GLASS FACTORY REPORTEDLY SHUT DOWN A WEEK AGO IN VIEW OF THE HOSTILITIES. THE WORKERS WERE IN THE PROCESS OF EVACUATING WHEN THE INCIDENT TOOK PLACE. INDIA HAS SO FAR EVACUATED 600 PEOPLE, SARNA SAID. THEY HAVE BEEN TAKEN TO CYPRUS BY SHIP AND WILL BE FLOWN BACK TO INDIA. THE EVACUEES INCLUDED SIX NEPALESE NATIONALS AS PART OF NEPAL'S REQUEST FOR HELP IN EVACUATING ITS NATIONALS.
