A search was underway on a Biman Bangladesh Airlines flight from Rome to Dhaka following a bomb threat on Wednesday, with the passengers being kept in the terminal building and barred from going through immigration until the aircraft was declared completely safe.
According to airport sources, the bomb disposal unit was conducting searches inside the plane, including the seats, corridors, toilets and café.
Although passengers were urgently disembarked, their hand luggage remained on the plane and was to be searched one by one.
Group Captain Muhammed Kamrul Islam, executive director of Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport, told the media in a message: “A bomb threat was received at Dhaka’s Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport from an unknown number.
"Following the threat, Biman Bangladesh Airlines flight BG-356 made an emergency landing at Hazrat Shahjalal Airport at 9:20am."
The flight, with 250 passengers and 13 crew members, departed from Leonardo da Vinci Rome Fiumicino Airport in Rome at 8pm local time on Tuesday.