Dhaka, June 21 -- Seventeen Bangladeshis, among the 64 stranded for three weeks in the Mediterranean, returned home on Friday from Tunisia under special arrangements.

Shariful Hasan, programme head of BRAC Migration, confirmed that a flight of Qatar Airways carrying them landed at Dhaka airport at 5:15pm.

Sources at Bangladesh Embassy in Libya said Tunisia allowed the 75 migrants, including 64 Bangladeshis, to disembark on condition that they will return home.

Bangladeshis stuck off Tunisia disembark

They were brought to a shelter house regulated jointly by Red Crescent and International Organization for Migration (IOM). Twenty Bangladeshis were given tickets in the first phase but three of them refused to return.

Sources said the em...