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51 Bangladeshi evacuees return home from Sudan

GreenWatch Desk Diplomacy 2023-05-11, 7:05pm

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A total of 51 Bangladeshi nationals, who were among those stranded in crisis-hit Sudan, arrived in Dhaka via Jeddah in Saudi Arabia today.

"Total 176 Bangladeshi expatriates arrived at Jeddah Airport on Wednesday from Port Sudan. A flight of Biman Bangladesh Airlines carrying 51 of them landed at Dhaka's Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport around 10:20am this 

morning," Airport Armed Police Battalion (APBn) Additional Police Super Ziaul Haque told BSS.

According to a press release from the Bangladesh Embassy in Saudi Arabia, 130 more Bangladeshi nationals will return home by Qatar Airlines and 238 by Biman Bangladesh Airlines from Madinah today (Thursday).

The Bangladesh Embassy in Riyadh also stated that about 1,500 Bangladeshi citizens live in Sudan, those who have registered to return home will be brought back in phases, reports BSS.