Staff Reporter :
Some 11 Bangladesh nationals, including women and children who got stranded in the civil war torn Yemen, returned home on Friday evening.
A flight of Emirates Airlines carrying them landed at Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport around 6pm, said a Foreign Ministry statement
India rescued 272 Bangladeshi nationals, including five women and five children last week, Indian High Commission in Dhaka tweeted on Friday.
On April 7, Bangladesh and 25 other countries sought India’s assistance to evacuate their citizens from Yemen.
The USA, France, Germany, Sweden, Singapore, Malaysia, Ireland, Nepal, Sri Lanka and Iraq,
among others, made the requests.
MEA spokesman Syed Akbaruddin shared the information on micro-blogging site Twitter on Tuesday.
India on Friday stepped up its evacuation. At least 1,052 Indians, including a newborn baby, had been evacuated from Yemen till Thursday.
Yemen has been engulfed in civil war, as the rebels continued their advance against exiled President Abedrabbo Mansour Hadi’s loyalists who are being supported by Saudi Arabia, Egypt, the USA and other Gulf states.
A Bangladesh team from its mission in Kuwait is now in Djibouti and it so far communicated with Bangladesh nationals in two cities — Aden and Sana’a in Yemen.
Bangladeshis will be taken to Djibouti from Aden by ship and then will be brought back home by air, while Bangladesh nationals staying in Sana’a will be taken to Djibouti by air.
Some 1500 to 3000 Bangladesh nationals are living in Yemen, but all of them are not interested to come back homes, according to Foreign Ministry here.
Some 11 Bangladesh nationals, including women and children who got stranded in the civil war torn Yemen, returned home on Friday evening.
A flight of Emirates Airlines carrying them landed at Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport around 6pm, said a Foreign Ministry statement
India rescued 272 Bangladeshi nationals, including five women and five children last week, Indian High Commission in Dhaka tweeted on Friday.
On April 7, Bangladesh and 25 other countries sought India’s assistance to evacuate their citizens from Yemen.
The USA, France, Germany, Sweden, Singapore, Malaysia, Ireland, Nepal, Sri Lanka and Iraq,
among others, made the requests.
MEA spokesman Syed Akbaruddin shared the information on micro-blogging site Twitter on Tuesday.
India on Friday stepped up its evacuation. At least 1,052 Indians, including a newborn baby, had been evacuated from Yemen till Thursday.
Yemen has been engulfed in civil war, as the rebels continued their advance against exiled President Abedrabbo Mansour Hadi’s loyalists who are being supported by Saudi Arabia, Egypt, the USA and other Gulf states.
A Bangladesh team from its mission in Kuwait is now in Djibouti and it so far communicated with Bangladesh nationals in two cities — Aden and Sana’a in Yemen.
Bangladeshis will be taken to Djibouti from Aden by ship and then will be brought back home by air, while Bangladesh nationals staying in Sana’a will be taken to Djibouti by air.
Some 1500 to 3000 Bangladesh nationals are living in Yemen, but all of them are not interested to come back homes, according to Foreign Ministry here.
