217 more Bangladeshis return from Saudi Arabia
They arrived in two separate flights of Saudi Airlines at Dhaka’s Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport
Some 217 more Bangladeshi migrant workers returned home from Saudi Arabia on Thursday.
They arrived in two separate flights of Saudi Airlines at Dhaka's Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport.
A flight of Saudi Airlines SV-804 carrying 103 Bangladeshi workers landed at the airport at 11:20pm while another flight of the airlines SV-802 carrying 114 Bangladeshi landed at 1:10am.
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A total of 2,500 Bangladeshi expatriates have returned home from Saudi Arabia in the last three weeks, according to Brac Migration Programme.
According to data from Expatriate Welfare Desk, a total of 64,638 Bangladeshi workers have returned home in 2019.
Among them, 25,789 returned from Saudi Arabia; 15,289 returned from Malaysia; 6,117 returned from the United Arab Emirates; 7,366 returned from Oman; 2,525 returned from the Maldives; 2,012 returned from Qatar; 1,448 returned from Bahrain and 479 returned from Kuwait.
