28 Bangladeshi sailors to return home on Tuesday

Twenty stranded sailors of the Bangladeshi ship named ‘Banglar Samriddhi’ were safely evacuated to Romania from war torn Ukraine early Sunday (Bangladesh local time).

They are expected to return home on Tuesday, a source from Bangladesh embassy to Poland confirmed the matter to Jago News.   

The ship stranded at a Ukrainian port came under a missile attack on Wednesday leaving one Bangladeshi sailor dead.

After the attack, the foreign ministry through Bangladesh embassy in Poland arranged the evacuation of the stranded sailors from the ship to a safer place in Ukraine with the support of local authority.

Russia said it regretted the death of a sailor onboard a Bangladeshi ship in Ukraine amid the armed conflict there and assured Dhaka of making "every effort" to ensure the ship's safe departure of the vessel. 

"We express deep condolences to the near and dear ones of the deceased," the Russian embassy said in a statement.

Without elaboration, the statement said the "circumstances of the incident are being established" as Bangladeshi sailor Hadisur Rahman, the third engineer of MV Banglar Samriddhi, was killed as the vessel was anchored at Ukraine's Olvia Port.