31 more Bangladeshis back from Iraq

Thirty-one Bangladeshi workers returned home yesterday from Iraq on security grounds.
A Qatar Airways flight carrying the  workers landed at the Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport around 6:00am. They worked at a South Korean company in South Baghdad.
Meanwhile, 15 Bangladeshis, who were stranded at Erbil International Airport in Iraq, will return home today, said sources at the foreign ministry.  
The Bangladesh embassy has arranged their return home, the foreign ministry added.
The workers returned home as they did not want to work amid fear and uncertainty. Their employing company had tried to convince them to stay.
"We didn't want to work amid the uncertainty and risk. So we resigned and returned home," Shahjahan Miah, a resident of Brahmanbaria, told The Daily Star yesterday.
"Our company didn't allow us to go out of the project area on security grounds. We had to stay there like prisoners," said Shahjahan who could not go out in his eight months with the company.
The situation was the same for others, he mentioned.
Around 4,000 Bangladeshis are working in a housing project of the South Korean company. Since the conflicts began in Iraq last month, several hundred Bangladeshis resigned as they wanted to return home.
Some of them, however, had later withdrawn their resignations following assurances from their employer and the Bangladesh embassy in Baghdad.
At least 105 Bangladeshis of the same company returned home in two weeks of this month.