Responding to a call of the foreign ministry, 17 Bangladeshi migrants out of 64, who have been stranded in the Mediterranean Sea, are on their way to return home this afternoon. Sources at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Bangladesh Embassy in Libya confirmed it to The Daily Star this noon. The migrants were stranded off the Tunisian coast of Zarzis for 17 days after they were rescued by an Egyptian boat on Tunisian waters on May 31. After they were rescued, the migrants were not willing to return to Tunisia. On June 17, Chiranjib Sarker, director general of the foreign ministry’s consular wing, told The Daily Star over phone that it took hours of discussion with the migrants to convince them to return home.

Source: Libya Today June 21, 2019 06:56 UTC