51 Bangladeshi evacuees return home from Sudan
11 May 2023, 06:53 pm | Updated: 21 November 2024, 10:03 pm
A total of 51 Bangladeshi nationals, who were among those stranded in crisis-hit Sudan, arrived in Dhaka via Jeddah in Saudi Arabia today.
Airport Armed Police Battalion (APBn) Additional Police Super Ziaul Haque said that the 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.
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.
