A total of 292 Bangladeshi nationals who have been stranded in Oman due to the worldwide shutdown returned home on Friday evening.
According to the Civil Aviation Authority of Bangladesh, a flight of Oman Air carrying the Bangladeshis landed at Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport around 6:50pm.
Earlier, 332 Bangladesh nationals returned home from New Delhi and Chennai in the afternoon on two special flights.
The Ministry of Foreign Affairs has so far facilitated the repatriation of over 2,000 stranded Bangladeshi citizens from China, India, Nepal, Saudi Arabia, Sri Lanka, Thailand, Oman and Turkey, including pilgrims, students, tourists, patients and their attendants, and businessmen.
It said they are fully committed to working under the overall guidance of Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina during the critical moment of the coronavirus outbreak.
