Published on 12:00 AM, March 21, 2011

Biman's flight for refugees

Biman Bangladesh will operate one flight everyday from today to repatriate around 2,000 Bangladeshis stranded in Ras Jdir, border point of Libya-Tunisia.
Briefing reporters, Foreign Secretary Mijarul Quayes said initially Biman decided to operate flight on March 21, 23, 24 and 27. Each flight will carry 300 passengers.
He said some 424 Bangladeshi nationals are scheduled to return home yesterday and another 300 to return today. With this, he said the number of reported returnees from Libya would total 30,225.