DHAKA, July 23 – A total of 123 Malaysians, including 80 students, safely departed from Bangladesh on a special AirAsia flight at 11.05 am local time.
According to Bernama, the evacuation process at Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport in Dhaka proceeded smoothly despite a slight delay due to slow immigration clearance.
The airport in the Bangladeshi capital was also heavily guarded by soldiers due to a nationwide curfew.
The flight, which is part of the mission to evacuate Malaysians from Bangladesh led by Foreign Ministry’s South and Central Asia Division undersecretary Datuk Dr Shazelina Zainul Abidin, is expected to take three hours and 55 minutes before landing at the Kuala Lumpur International Airport (KLIA) Terminal 2.
