25 stranded Bangladeshis return from Afghanistan
Twenty five Bangladeshi workers who had been stranded in an Afghan factory for over 10 months were flown back home this morning.
They arrived on a flight of Flydubai at the Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport in Dhaka around 10:30am, Shakil Ahmed, an official of International Organisation for Migration's (IOM) Dhaka office, told The Daily Star.
Both the foreign ministry of Bangladesh and IOM were involved in the repatriation of the workers, reads an SMS.
The workers lost their jobs and were forced to stay in inhumane conditions at Afghan Folad Steel Mill Co Ltd in Herat province of the war-torn country.
The Bangladeshis had left home for Afghanistan on October 10 last year under the arrangement of an Indian national from West Bengal.
He had pledged lucrative salaries to the workers.
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