Twenty-eight others, including the children's "guardians" and their other children, accompanied them in two flights of Bangladesh Biman from Abu Dhabi.

The first flight arrived at 5:00am with 17 and the other at 11:00am with 33 of them.

Six more children were scheduled to arrive at 2:00am today.

Additional Secretary Abdur Rouf of Home Ministry, Bangladesh National Women Lawyers' Association (BNWLA) Executive Director advocate Salma Ali and a Unicef representative welcomed the children at ZIA.

The government took initiatives to bring them back home with the assistance of United Nations Children Fund (Unicef) and International Organisation for Migration (IOM).

The children aged between five and 12, who passed horrifying days while being used as camel jockeys in the rich-oil country for the last few years, are now kept at the BNWLA shelter home in the city.

Earlier, 37 children used as camel jockeys and their 36 "guardians" were brought to Dhaka on August 11.

The UAE government is sending back 260 such Bangladeshi children under an agreement the UAE had signed with Unicef in May this year.

The agreement banned the use of children under 16 and weighing less than 45 kilograms in camel race, a popular sport in the Middle East.

Government and BNWLA officials said many of the "guardians" who claimed to be mothers or fathers of the children are not real ones.

Meanwhile, BNWLA officials have taken interviews of those who have been brought back and are now waiting for the home ministry directives for handing them over to genuine parents.

Police in assistance with the UP Chairmen will start finding out the genuine parents and their addresses soon, home ministry officials said.

The UAE government will give $1000 to the Bangladesh government for each of the children.

A cell comprising the representatives from Unicef, IOM, NGOs and government will monitor the use of money for rehabilitation of the children.