143 return home from Libya

As many as 143 Bangladeshi migrants yesterday returned home voluntarily from Libya.

A chartered flight of Buraq Air carrying the migrants landed at Dhaka airport in the morning, said Fakhrul Alam, assistant director of Expatriates' Welfare Desk at the airport.

The welfare desk provided necessary support to them upon arrival, Fakhrul told this newspaper over phone.

The expatriates' welfare ministry set up the desk to provide support to returnee and outbound migrant workers.

Yesterday, the migrants returned home with support from IOM and they included a number of ailing and vulnerable ones, reads a Facebook post of the Bangladesh embassy in Libya. The charter flight was arranged by IOM and it left Libya's Mitiga International Airport in Tripoli on Wednesday.