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KSA deports 767 Bangladeshis at start of New Year

Deporting Bangladeshi workers by the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia continued in the New Year like 2019, with deportation of 767 ones last seven days.

Last as many as 132 Bangladeshi labourers, including five female ones, returned home by two flights of Saudi Airlines around 11:20pm on Tuesday and 1:30am on Wednesday. 

Brac Migration Programme provided the deportees emergency services, including food and safe return to their respective homes.

The programme chief Shariful Hasan said a total of 767 Bangladeshi workers came back home in the first week of 2020.