The Bangladesh embassy in Beirut on Wednesday asked migrants in Lebanon, willing to return home amid increasing airstrikes by Israeli forces, to give their information in a designated form by October 12.
In an announcement, the embassy requested the stranded migrants in the war-torn Lebanon to fill in a prescribed form and submit it to embassy鈥檚 email address: [email protected]
The Bangladesh mission came up with the initiative a day after the foreign adviser Md Touhid Hossain announced that evacuation of Bangladeshis from the west Asian country would be started in cooperation with the International Organisation for Migration.
He said that Dhaka requested the IOM to arrange chartered flights to bring back Bangladeshis willing to leave Lebanon amid airstrikes by Israel.
The foreign affairs ministry in a press release said that the expatriates鈥� welfare ministry was also working collectively to bring the migrants back home immediately.
Migrant workers in different shelters were trying to return home as Israel increased attacks on Lebanon and killed several thousand people so far.
Stranded Bangladeshis alleged that they were living inhuman lives in the war-ravaged Lebanon because of the shortage of food, drinking water, and shelter.
They urged the government to take them back home immediately as the situation had been deteriorating in the West Asian country since Israel intensified attacks further since Sunday night.
According to media reports, at least 2,000 people, including dozens of children, were killed since Israel intensified a bombing campaign in Lebanon on September 23.
According to Bangladesh鈥檚 Bureau of Manpower, Employment and Training statistics, at least 2,67,364 Bangladeshis had migrated into the country since 2002. Of them, 61,786 migrated since 2015.
Migrants estimated that over one lakh Bangladeshi migrants were now working in the West Asian country.
