Fifteen Bangladeshi migrants have returned home from war-torn Iraq on security grounds on Saturday morning.
The migrants landed at Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport around 9:10am, Md Zia Uddin, director of wage earners’ welfare board, told the Dhaka Tribune.
Badiur Rahman, deputy secretary of expatriates' welfare and overseas employment ministry, received them at the airport.
“The migrants have returned home with the assistance of the government,” he said.
The returnees are – Mahbub Alam, Md Wahid Hossain, Salim Sheikh, Hannan Mia, Md Nur Alam, Md Jasim Sarder, Md Al Amin, Md Mostafa, Baten, Nannu Mia, Babul, Rasel, Mukaddech, Shafiqul Hossain and Swapan.
