A total of 51 Bangladeshi nationals have returned home from the trouble-torn Iraq.
They arrived at Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport by a Qatar Airways flight around 5:30am on Tuesday.
Md Shariful Islam, one of the returnees, told the Dhaka Tribune that they had worked at a South Korean company, Hanowa, as construction workers.
"We returned home on our own cost in fear of losing our lives within the ongoing violence in Iraq," said Shariful.
There are around 25,000 migrant workers in Iraq and 1,500 of them living in Mosul are in a vulnerable state, according to a government official.
The Iraqi government bolstered Baghdad's defences as militants pushed towards the capital.
After taking Mosul, militants in Iraq captured a major chunk of mainly Sunni Arab territory stretching towards the capital.
The government had decided to suspend sending workers to Iraq until a safe and secure environment prevails there.
Several thousand Bangladeshi workers were waiting to go to Iraq for jobs, however the government had decided to suspend sending these workers on security grounds.