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British Navy plans to evacuate Britons from Syria with HMS Illustrious & Bulwark
BRITAIN'S Royal Navy is preparing contingency plans for a mass evacuation of British citizens from Syria and neighbouring countries. A large navy taskforce will sail to the eastern Mediterranean for large-scale exercises after the Olympics but will have the capability to help civilians fleeing the growing violence. It will include the helicopter carrier HMS Illustrious and the HMS Bulwark ferrying 45 Royal Marines. The force will carry out amphibious landings in Sardinia, Albania and Turkey, then is likely to ''loiter'' off Cyprus, 130 kilometres from the Syrian mainland. Navy planners said the fleet was a precautionary measure to evacuate British passport holders.
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