15 Bangladeshi survivors from Tunisia boat capsize return home
|| risingbd.com
Published: 08:31, 21 May 2019
Update: 15:18, 26 July 2020
Staff Correspondent: Some 15 Bangladeshi survivors from a boat capsize in the Mediterranean Sea off Tunisia coast returned home early Tuesday.
A Turkish Airlines flight (TK-712) carrying the Bangladeshi migrant aspirants landed at Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport here at 5:50 am.
International Organization for Migration (IOM) and Red Crescent assisted them to return home.
Earlier, on May 9, a total of 60 migrants died in a boat capsize in the Mediterranean Sea as they were on their way to Libya for Italy. Of them, 51 were Bangladeshis.
The 15 Bangladeshi survivors who returned home were rescued by the Tunisian Navy and local fishermen that day.
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