164 stranded Bangladeshis return from India

Staff Reporter Published: 20 April 2020, 05:51 PM
164 stranded Bangladeshis return from India

Hundred and sixty-four Bangladeshis, who were stranded in India for over a month, returned home on Monday afternoon.

A special chartered flight of US-Bangla Airlines carrying the passengers landed at Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport at 3:48pm from Chennai.

Kamrul Islam, general manager (public relations) of the airlines, confirmed the matter to Jago News. 

US-Bangla Airlines is scheduled to operate five more special flights till April 25 from Kolkata and Chennai to bring back other Bangladeshis who are stranded in India.