28 stranded sailors of ‘Banglar Samriddhi’ evacuated from Ukraine

Twenty-eight stranded sailors of the Bangladeshi ship named ‘Banglar Samriddhi’ have been safely evacuated to Romania from war-torn Ukraine.

“We evacuated our 28 stranded Bangladeshi sailors to Romania and they will return home soon,” Foreign Minister Dr. A K Abdul Momen told reporters after a program at Jatiya Press Club on Sunday. 

“We are continuously discussing with the Indian government and they are helping us to evacuate our people from the war zone.”

The ship stranded at a Ukrainian port came under a missile attack on Wednesday leaving one Bangladeshi sailor dead.

A sailor named Md Hadisur Rahman has been killed after a missile hit the ship, which is stranded at the Olvia seaport due to war.

After the attack, the foreign ministry through the Bangladesh embassy in Poland arranged the evacuation of the stranded sailors from the ship to a safer place in Ukraine with the support of local authorities.

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