Bangladesh, May 25 -- A group of 170 Bangladeshis detained in Libya during failed attempts to cross the Mediterranean to Europe has been repatriated.

A chartered flight of Buraq Air carrying the Bangladeshi citizens landed at Shahjalal International Airport around 8:30am on Monday, according to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

The repatriation was carried out under a joint initiative by the Bangladesh Embassy in Tripoli, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, and the Ministry of Expatriates' Welfare and Overseas Employment, with assistance from the Libyan government and the International Organization for Migration (IOM).

According to the foreign ministry, the majority of these individuals had entered Libya illegally with the help of human t...