PM curtails Singapore tour over aircraft crash

Risingbd Desk: Curtailing her four-day official visit to Singapore, Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina will return home tomorrow (Tuesday) due to crash of the US-Bangla aircraft in Nepal.

Sheikh Hasina, who was supposed to return home Wednesday evening, is likely to reach Dhaka tomorrow morning, said a press release of the prime minister's press wing issued on Monday night.

Hasina, also president of the ruling Awami League, left Dhaka for Singapore on a four-day official visit at the invitation of her Singaporean counterpart Lee Hsien Loong on Sunday.

At least 50 people were killed as an aircraft of the US-Bangla Airlines with 71 people on board crashed on Monday while coming in to land at Tribhuvan International Airport in Nepal at 2:20pm.


risingbd/Dhaka/March 12, 2018/NA/AI