Tripoli, March 12 -- Libya deported 160 Bangladeshi migrants voluntarily to their home country on Wednesday, according to the Libyan Illegal Migration Control Department.
"Today (Wednesday), we deported 160 illegal migrants of Bangladeshi nationality to their country through a flight from Tripoli Mitiga International Airport to Dhaka, Bangladesh," Khalid al-Abyad, an officer with the department, told Xinhua.
Al-Abyad confirmed that work to advance the voluntary departure of migrants will continue in the future.
It follows the department's deportation of a group of Egyptian migrants to their home country via the land port on Tuesday.
Because of the insecurity and chaos in the country since the fall of its late leader Muammar Gaddafi ...