145 Bangladeshis return from Libya

A total 145 irregular Bangladeshi citizens have returned home from Libya.

A chartered flight of Buraq Air carrying them landed at the Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport in Dhaka on Wednesday morning.

Officials of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the International Organization for Migration (IOM) welcomed them.
With this, the total number of returnees has reached 398 so far.

The IOM gave each of them pocket money of Tk 6500 and some food items.

The process of repatriating Bangladeshis trapped in Libya is ongoing with the efforts of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the Bangladesh Embassy, Tripoli and with the financial support of the International Organization for Migration (IOM).