Thirty one more Bangladeshi migrants have returned home from war-torn Iraq on security grounds.
Talking to the Dhaka Tribune over phone, Shajahan Miah, one of the returnees, informed that a flight of Qatar Airlines carrying the migrants landed at Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport around 5:45am.
Miah worked at Hanwha Engineering and Construction, a South Korean Company. Around 6,000 Bangladeshis are working in the company.
He also said Shia army men beat up around 20 Bangladeshis inside the company. Three Bangladeshis are still in the hospital. Of them, one is Mahabub and another is Abdul Mannan.
“Who will give guarantee that I would not be beaten up,” Shajahan Mia said adding he could not go outside for about seven months.
About the return of migrants, expatriates' welfare and overseas employment ministry, however, does not know anything.
Sources said a committee headed by expatriate ministry joint secretary Nurul Islam has been formed to look after the situation in Iraq.
Talking to this correspondent, Islam said: “I have to check the news."
Apart from security reasons, migrants can return home, the official claimed.
Earlier, over one hundred migrants returned home from Iraq on security reasons.
According to the foreign ministry, 15 Bangladeshis stranded in northern Iraq are scheduled to return home on Saturday morning.