Dhaka, March 19 -- Eighteen Bangladeshis, who were victims of human trafficking, and imprisoned in a scam centre in Myanmar, returned home early Wednesday.

A Thai Airways flight carrying them landed at Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport in Dhaka at 12:45 am, with BRAC Migration Programme staff providing them with urgent assistance, as per a UNB report.

Shariful Hasan, Associate Director of BRAC's Migration and Youth Platform, said that the victims' families contacted BRAC for help in rescuing them, prompting them to reach out to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Bangladesh, the CID and the Bangladesh Embassy in Thailand.

Those rescued are Omar Faruk, Rasheduzzaman Islam, Md Alif, Raihan Sobhan, Sheikh Arman, Md Pavel Chowdhury, Mo...