Twenty seven Bangladeshi workers returned home on Tuesday morning from Baghdad, the capital of troubled-torn Iraq, on ‘security ground’ as the war-torn country is facing severe internal conflicts involving different forces.
The Bangladeshi workers arrived at Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport by a Qatar Airways flight around 7:00am.
They returned home from Iraq on their own initiatives, said Monirul Islam, one of the 27 Bangladeshi workers back from Baghdad. They all worked in Hanwha Engineering and Construction, a South Korean company of Iraq. Earlier, they had resigned before leaving Iraq and the company accepted their resignation.
The South Korean company is working on a project named “Bismaya New City Project” in South Baghdad.
The Bangladeshi people working at the company are in fear following an assault and harassment of a fellow workers and lack of security at work places.
On June 28, several hundred Bangladeshi workers went on a work abstention protesting what they said arrest of a Bangladeshi man by Iraqi police from Bismaya New City Project area in Baghdad, media reports said.
Around 4,000 Bangladeshis are working there in constant fear of attacks by insurgents as the latter have already swept over a large part of Iraq’s north since June 5 and are advancing to the south.
Over 20,000 Bangladeshis are working in various sectors in Iraq, according to the Expatriates’ Welfare and Overseas Employment Ministry sources.
