Members of the Bangladesh national football team, along with a small group of Bangladeshi nationals stranded in Nepal, returned home on Thursday afternoon by a special aircraft of the Bangladesh Air Force.
Over 50 passengers, including 38 football team members, nearly a dozen journalists and others, were on board, a diplomat at the Bangladesh Embassy in Kathmandu told UNB.
He said around 400 Bangladesh nationals, altogether, left Kathmandu on Thursday by two flights of Biman Bangladesh Airlines and the special aircraft of the Bangladesh Air Force.
Meanwhile, the car of Bangladesh Ambassador to Nepal Md Shafiqur Rahman was vandalised during the recent chaotic situation in Kathmandu.
Despite the flag being shown, one of the groups blocked the car and vandalised it although other groups facilitated the movement of the car later seeing Bangladesh’s flag, a diplomat at the embassy told UNB.
“The Ambassador was not inside the car at that time. The Deputy Head of Mission was moving with other staff to the hotel to escort them to the airport at that time,” he said, adding that the football team management was hurrying for the flight at that time and they had to respond.
Meanwhile, a Bangladeshi family was physically assaulted and looted amid the chaotic situation in Nepal when the protesters vandalised a five-star hotel on Tuesday.
The frightened family was kept at the Ambassador's residence on Wednesday.
