Sudan Returnees

Collected Fifty-two out of 176 Bangladeshis have returned home from Jeddah.

Another 52 Bangladeshis return to country from war-torn Sudan

According to the information of the Bangladesh Embassy in Riyadh, 130 more people are scheduled to return home by Qatar Airlines and 238 people by Biman Bangladesh Airlines from Medina. Last Monday, 136 Bangladeshis returned home from war-torn Sudan via Jeddah. They returned home on a Biman Bangladesh flight. Among the returnees were women, children and sick expatriates.

On May 3, 680 Bangladeshis were safely taken to Port Sudan from Khartoum, the capital of Sudan. They were taken there by a total of 13 buses in two phases.

The Bangladesh Embassy in Riyadh says that about 1,500 Bangladeshi citizens live in Sudan. Among them, those who have registered to come to the country will be brought back to the country in stages.

At the beginning of the fighting between the Sudanese army and the paramilitary forces, the residence of the Acting Ambassador of Bangladesh, Tarek Ahmed, was attacked in the country's capital, Khartoum, on April 15.

Machine gun fire penetrated the walls and windows of the ambassador's house. Then on April 22, during the fighting between the Sudanese army and the paramilitary forces, machine gun bullets penetrated through the windows and walls of the Bangladesh Embassy.