A flight carrying 153 Bangladeshi nationals have left London for Dhaka.
The chartered flight of the national flag carrier BG 4106 departed from Heathrow International Airport in London at 10:30am (London local time), said a press release issued by the Bangladesh High Commission in the UK.
The flight is scheduled to land at Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport at 12:30am on Sunday, said the release as reported by BSS.
Bangladesh High Commissioner to the UK Saida Muna Tasneem saw off the returning passengers at the airport while she expressed her deepest gratitude to Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina for this special flight.
This is the second repatriation flight from the UK as Bangladesh High Commission in London in close coordination with the Foreign Ministry and Bangladesh Air Force (BAF) arranged the first chartered
flight on May 10 to repatriate over 100 stranded Bangladesh citizens from the UK to Bangladesh.
The government so far repatriated stranded Bangladeshis from different other countries including India, the USA, Australia, Thailand, Singapore, Malaysia, Indonesia, Japan and South Korea.
The other countries, including the USA, India, Japan, Canada, Australia, Turkey, Singapore, Malaysia, Thailand, South Korea, Bhutan, Myanmar and different European countries also operated several special chartered flights amid the flight suspension to repatriate their citizens from here.
