157 Bangladeshis return from Libya

More 157 stranded irregular Bangladeshi migrants returned home from Libya on Tuesday (October 22).

Foreign ministry sources said that these Bangladeshi citizens arrived in Bangladesh on a chartered flight of Buraq Air with the cooperation of the Bangladesh Embassy in Libya and the International Organization for Migration (IOM).

The returnees were received at the airport by officials of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the International Organization for Migration (IOM).

According to the ministry, most of the returnees had entered Libya illegally with the intention of reaching Europe by sea, influenced and aided by human traffickers. Many of them had suffered abduction and abuse during their time in Libya.