DHAKA — A Bangladeshi worker died in an air strike in Lebanon, Dhaka's foreign ministry said Sunday, as Israeli bombardment hampered efforts to repatriate citizens.
DHAKA — A Bangladeshi worker died in an air strike in Lebanon , Dhaka's foreign ministry said Sunday, as Israeli bombardment hampered efforts to repatriate citizens.The foreign ministry estimated that between 70,000 and 100,000 of its citizens are working in Lebanon , many as laborers or domestic workers.The first flights, organized by Dhaka's government with the UN's International Organization for Migration, brought home scores of Bangladeshi s from Beirut last month.
Mohmmad Jalaluddin said his younger brother Nizam had lived in Beirut for more than a decade, and had not been among the estimated 1,800 Bangladeshis who had registered for an evacuation flight home.'We want to bury him in our ancestral home, and are now waiting for the government's response,' Jalaluddin told AFP.Senior Bangladeshi foreign ministry official Shah Mohammad Tanvir Monsur said it was challenging to arrange a flight into Beirut.
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