337 Yemen evacuees to reach Dhaka on Sunday

Some 337 Bangladeshis evacuated by Indian ships from Yemen will reach Dhaka on Sunday early morning.

Senior Correspondentbdnews24.com
Published : 18 April 2015, 01:26 PM
Updated : 18 April 2015, 06:15 PM

The foreign ministry said they would be flown back to Dhaka from India’s Kerala in a two Bangladesh Biman’s special flights.
 
One flight will reach at 4.15am while the other at 4.30am.
 
State Minister for Foreign Affairs Md Shahriar Alam will receive them at the airport.
 
Earlier, Indian passenger ships carrying 337 Bangladeshis started from Djibouti on Apr 12 for the Indian Kochi port in Kerala.
 
India evacuated nearly 500 Bangladeshis from the war-ravaged Yemen.
 
At least 30 of them have reached home earlier.
 
The rest, 136, who were evacuated at the last moment would be flown back to Dhaka from Djibouti on Apr 20 in a Biman Bangladesh Airlines special flight, the foreign ministry earlier said.
 
Yemen became volatile with the rise of Shia Houthis who took over the capital six months ago and ousted its President Abd-Rabbu Mansour Hadi.
 
The situation took a turn for the worse when Saudi-led airstrikes began.