Staff Reporter :Two Bangladeshi nationals, those got trapped in two adjacent hotels in the Yemeni capital Sana’a due to allied strikes on Houthi rebels, have made an appeal through email for their rescue.One of them Golam Mostafa, 60, a civil engineer in profession, passport No. is AF 3896977, now staying at Shahran Hotel in Sana’a sought help requesting the Government of Bangladesh to rescue him from there.He identified the other Bangladeshi as Mohammad Sirajul Haque, also an engineer, staying in adjacent hotel, whose passport No. is AC2545774.They are not getting any help from their own country, as Bangladesh does not have any mission there.Meanwhile, the Foreign Ministry officials in Dhaka said on Sunday that they were trying to rescue the two Bangladesh nationals through the country’s embassy in Kuwait.Official sources said Bangladeshi ambassador in Kuwait Maj Gen Mohammad Ashab Uddin has already talked to Mostafa and offered the required help for his safety.The officials, however, failed to give detail information about the news of the other Bangladeshis trapped in Yemen. Houthi rebels in Yemen have recently seized the capital city.Golam Mostafa, an engineer of BUET, went to Yemen with a job under a World Bank project (RMF Road Maintenance). He stays at Eid city, some kilometres away from Sana, and works there as a team leader under the project there.Golam Mostafa told media that he had found the situation in Sana deteriorating when he arrived in Yemen a month ago. “There are no flights due to airstrikes every day. I contacted the missions of India and Pakistan there but both had expressed their inability to help a foreigner.””Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, Qatar withdrew their embassies a long time ago. Now, I don’t know what to do. I’m staying at Shahran Hotel and Sirajul in an adjacent hotel,” he said. Foreign media reported that the UN has also evacuated close to 100 of its international staff from Sana’a, which has been under Houthi control since September. About 250 other foreigners working for international oil companies and NGOs had also flown out to Ethiopia and Djibouti. Pakistan, which is yet to decide whether to offer military support to the Saudis, is flying jumbo jets to Yemen to evacuate hundreds of its nationals, a Defence Ministry official said in Islamabad on Sunday.
