Staff Correspondent

Saudi Arabian authorities have sent back 105 Bangladeshi migrant workers on Tuesday and yesterday -- as part of a crackdown on undocumented workers in the kingdom.

With them, the number of migrant workers returning from the Middle Eastern country has now risen to 355 over the last seven days.

A Saudia Airlines plane, carrying 42 workers, landed in Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport around 11:20pm on Tuesday. Another plane of the same airline, carrying 63 workers, arrived around 1:15am yesterday.

Following their arrival, a support team comprising of officials of the Ministry of Expatriates’ Welfare and Overseas Employment and Brac Migration Programme arranged food for the returnees and assisted them at the immigration office, officials said.

Some 120 Bangladeshi workers returned from the oil-rich country on Friday night. On October 3, 130 migrant workers returned home from the kingdom.

Shariful Hasan, programme head of Brac Migration, said around 10,000-11,000 Bangladeshi workers have so far been sent back by the Saudi authorities this year alone.

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