The 28 crew members of the Bangladeshi stranded ship in Ukraine reached Romania on Sunday morning, said Bangladeshi Ambassador Md Daud Ali.
The sailors, a group which includes two female cadets, were expected to reach the Romanian capital of Bucharest in a couple of hours, he told news portal Bdnews24.com.
Bangladesh has an embassy in the Romanian capital and hotel arrangements have been made for the sailors, the ambassador said.
“They will stay in Bucharest after they arrive. Then arrangements will be made to send them home by air. We will speak to them before they leave. They will be travelling a long way to get here so they will need rest.”
The body of Md Hadisur Rahman, an engineer killed when the vessel was hit, is being preserved in Ukraine, Daud Ali told Bdnews24.com.
The Bangladesh Embassy in Poland is working to return the body to Bangladesh, he said.
It took four days for the crew of the vessel, which had been stranded at the Ukrainian port of Olvia, to leave Ukraine after their vessel was attacked.
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