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3rd special flight to bring Bangladeshis back from Libya tomorrow
United News of Bangladesh . Dhaka | Updated at 10:30am on September 28, 2020
Arrangements have been made to bring back Bangladeshis who have been stranded or staying in Libya but willing to return home by a chartered flight...
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8 Bangladeshis among 22 rescued from Europe-bound boat
United News of Bangladesh .Dhaka | Updated at 10:14am on September 27, 2020
Twenty-two Europe-bound migrants, including eight Bangladeshis, were rescued from Libya’s Mediterranean coast, after their dingy capsized in the sea. Libyan fishermen spotted the sinking boat...
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24 migrants killed in Mediterranean Sea boat capsize
United News of Bangladesh / AP . Cairo | Updated at 03:22pm on September 15, 2020
The UN migration agency said Tuesday that a boat carrying migrants bound for Europe capsized in the Mediterranean Sea off Libya, leaving at least two...
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Red Crescent retrieves 22 bodies off Libya coast
Agence France-Presse .Tripoli | Updated at 11:02am on August 24, 2020
The Libyan Red Crescent retrieved the bodies of 22 migrants off the coastal town of Zwara on Sunday, said the International Organisation for Migration. ‘Today,...
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45 migrants die in shipwreck off Libya
Agence France-Presse. Geneva | Updated at 11:51am on August 20, 2020
At least 45 migrants and refugees perished off Libya this week in the deadliest shipwreck there so far this year, the United Nations said on...
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UN says about 100 migrants risk drowning in Med
Agence France-Presse . Geneva | Updated at 10:46pm on July 27, 2020
Around 100 migrants fleeing war-ravaged Libya have run into difficulty in the Mediterranean and could drown, the UN said Monday, urging a rapid rescue. The...
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First Italy trial over ‘migrant pushback’ to Libya
Agence France-Presse. Rome | Updated at 11:14am on July 19, 2020
The captain of an Italian-flagged ship is to be tried for allegedly forcing migrants back to Libya, in the first such case in Italy, documents...
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Police to seek Interpol help to catch traffickers
Muktadir Rashid | Updated at 01:07am on July 17, 2020
The inspector general of police, Benazir Ahmed, during a meeting on Thursday, asked the investigators to seek Interpol help to arrest the suspected human traffickers...
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CID to quiz suspected traffickers
Court Correspondent | Updated at 01:38am on June 19, 2020
A metropolitan magistrate’s court on Thursday allowed the Criminal Investigation Department to interrogate two suspected human traffickers in its custody for two days in connection...
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Police so far arrest 52 human traffickers
Staff Correspondent | Updated at 01:23am on June 16, 2020
Police have arrested 52 suspected human traffickers till Monday in connection with 26 human trafficking related cases filed with various police stations, including Dhaka, soon...
