Biman to start evacuation flights

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The government has decided to send its national flag carrier to bring back Bangladeshis stranded in Egypt and Tunisia. "I have received a letter Monday from the foreign secretary requesting to send our carrier to Egypt and Tunisia to bring back Bangladeshis," civil aviation and tourism secretary Shafique Alam Mehdi told bdnews24.com Monday afternoon. "I asked the Biman authorities to take immediate steps in this regard," he said. When asked when the evacuation flights would start, he said, "The Biman authorities can say that." - bdnews24.com