A total of 176 Bangladeshi expatriates, including 106 detained at the Tajoura Detention Center in Tripoli, Libya, have been repatriated to Bangladesh.
With the assistance of the International Organization for Migration (IOM), 176 Bangladeshis landed at Dhaka’s Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport on a Burak Air flight at 4:15 am on Thursday.
Earlier, on Wednesday, the Bangladeshi Embassy in Libya had provided information regarding their return.
The embassy announced that two more flights will be arranged on March 19 and 26 to bring back over 300 Bangladeshi citizens.
According to the embassy, the Bangladeshi Embassy in Libya, through consistent and coordinated efforts, sent back 176 Bangladeshi nationals with the help of IOM. Among them, 106 were detained at the Tajura Detention Center in Tripoli, and the remaining 70 returned voluntarily from precarious situations.
Major General Abul Hasnat Mohammad Khairul Bashar, the Bangladesh Ambassador to Libya, together with other embassy officials bid farewell to the voluntarily repatriated expatriates at the embassy and to the detained migrants at the Libyan Immigration Department’s reception center.
Nearly 4,500 Bangladeshi nationals have been safely brought back to the country since July 2024.
Bd-pratidin English/ Afia
