A fresh batch of 140 Bangladeshi citizens has returned home from Libya by a chartered flight of Buraq Air, reports UNB. Among them, 113 people were affected by floods in the city of Derna in the eastern Libya and 27 were detained at Ganfouda detention centre in Benghazi, according to a foreign ministry press release. Foreign ministry officials and officials of International Organisation for Migration (IOM) received them at the airport. The Ministry of Foreign Affairs, with the financial support of the IOM, is facilitating the return of illegal Bangladeshi migrants stranded in Libya. As part of this initiative, a total of 975 Bangladeshis have been brought back to the country from Libya from July 2023, according to the foreign ministry press release.

Source: Libya Today December 22, 2023 18:06 UTC