Seventy-eight migrant workers, reportedly deported by the Omani authorities, returned home yesterday morning.
A Bangladesh Biman flight carrying the migrant workers, whose work visas had expired, landed at Dhaka Airport on Friday around 8am, authorities told the Dhaka Tribune.
The expatriate welfare director at the airport, Zahidul Islam, confirmed the arrival of the workers.
He said the workers had served 15-20 days in jail before being deported to Bangladesh.
Zahidul said the workers had worked for about seven to eight years before their documentation expired.
Expatriates’ welfare secretary Khandaker Showkat Hossain said, in general, there were no problems with migrants in Oman. These migrants were returned from Oman because they had overstayed their visas, he added.