82 more BD nationals return from Lebanon

A total of 82 Bangladeshi expatriates have returned home from conflict-stricken Lebanon aboard an Emirates Airlines flight, reports BSS.

The flight, EK-584, arrived at Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport (HSIA)

at around 11 pm on Thursday.

The repatriation was facilitated through coordinated efforts by the Ministries of Foreign Affairs, Expatriate Welfare and Overseas Employment, the Bangladesh Embassy in Beirut, and the International Organization for Migration (IOM).

Of the returnees, 76 expatriates were repatriated at the government's expenses while the return of six others was sponsored by the IOM.

All 76 government-sponsored expatriates had registered with the Bangladesh Embassy in Beirut while the remaining IOM-facilitated six individuals were registered with the IOM.