Bangladesh
Bangladeshi Engineers Six Bangladeshi engineers stranded in Kabul have returned home
Dhaka, September 1: Six Bangladeshi engineers working in Kabul, the capital of Afghanistan, have returned home. They arrived at Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport on EK 584 around 11:30 pm on Tuesday (August 31). Earlier in the day, they left Doha, Qatar for Dubai to return home. Later they left Dubai for Dhaka.
The returning engineers are Rajib bin Islam, Md. Kamruzzaman, Mohammad Nazrul Islam, Imran Hossain, Abu Jafar Md. Masud Karim and Sheikh Farid Uddin.
They were working as engineers for Afghan Wireless, a mobile phone operator in Afghanistan. Earlier, they returned to Doha from Kabul to a U.S. military base.
After returning home, Rajib bin Islam told reporters that 15 Bangladeshis were waiting to return home from Afghanistan. Twelve of them arrived in Qatar on August 28 in two phases with the help of the US Air Force. The other three were in Kabul until further notice.
On August 26, 15 Bangladeshis were scheduled to arrive in the country on a special flight managed by the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees. They were to be accompanied by 160 Afghan students from the Asian University for Women in Chittagong.
They had been waiting outside the Hamid Karzai International Airport in Kabul since noon on Wednesday (August 25). They returned to their homes after a suicide bomber struck at the entrance to Kabul airport.
