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NEW DELHI | Sun Jan 30, 2011 7:19am EST

NEW DELHI (Reuters) - India has sent one of state-run airline Air India's planes to Egypt to evacuate Indian citizens, the airline said on Sunday.

An aircraft left India at 1710 local time (5:40 a.m. EST) bound for Cairo, a destination to which the airline does not normally fly.

"It has left for Cairo and it will carry about 380 people," the spokesman said. "As of now there are no requests for further flights."

Around 3,600 Indians live in Egypt, Indian Foreign Minister S.M. Krishna said earlier on Sunday.

(Reporting by C.J. Kuncheria; Editing by Daniel Magnowski)

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