Dhaka, May 7 -- Another 174 Bangladeshi nationals who had expressed willingness to return home voluntarily from Libya were repatriated to Bangladesh on the early morning of May 7. They arrived in Dhaka at around 5:00 am on a Buraq Air flight.

The repatriation was carried out with the cooperation of the Libyan government and the International Organization for Migration through coordinated efforts by the Bangladesh Embassy in Libya, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, and the Ministry of Expatriates' Welfare and Overseas Employment.

According to a press release, most of the returnees had entered Libya illegally after being lured by human traffickers with promises of travelling to Europe by sea. Many of them reportedly became victims of abduc...