Community News Desk: As many as 28 sailors of the Bangladeshi ship -Banglar Samriddhi have safely reached Romania on Sunday morning.
Bangladesh high commissioner to Romania Md Daud Ali confirmed this to Prothom Alo.
He said, “As mansy as 28 sailors have reached Romania safely. Now they will be brought back home.”
Banglar Samriddhi, a ship of Bangladesh Shipping Corporation, came under a ‘missile’ at 9:20pm (Bangladesh time) on Wednesday in the port of Alvia in Ukraine.
Third engineer Hadisur Rahman was killed in the attack. The stranded sailors were taken to safety by a tugboat 24 hours after the attack with the help of Bangladeshi residents in Ukraine.
After spending 39 hours at a bunker in Ukraine, the 28 sailors got on the bus for Romania at around 12.00pm Bangladesh time.
While heading towards the border of neighbouring Moldova, at one point of their long journey, they got stranded in a long traffic jam due to the vehicles heading to Moldova.
Nearly 12 hours after starting the journey, the 28 sailors reached the Moldova border. Later, they started for Romania and reached there on Sunday morning.
Earlier on Saturday, foreign minister AK Abdul Momen said that the government would bring back 28 sailors within a short time.
