Dhaka, May 5 -- Around 160 Bangladeshi workers who remained stranded in Libya were brought back home on Wednesday morning.

The government has repatriated them with the support of International Organization for Migration (IOM), according to a press release issued by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

A chartered flight of Buraq Air, arranged by IOM, carried the workers. It reached Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport in the morning. The flight also brought back a body of a Bangladeshi national from Libya.

The workers remained trapped in Benghazi and the different cities of the eastern parts of Libya following the impact of Covid-19 pandemic and political unrest.

They underwent health checkups at the airport.

Of the total returnees, ni...