The 28 surviving crew members of Banglar Samriddhi, the Bangladeshi ship which was damaged by shelling during the war in Ukraine, have returned home from Romania.
A Turkish Airlines flight carrying the sailors touched down at Dhaka's Hazrat Shahjalal Internation Airport around 12:15 pm on Wednesday, according to Mujibur Rahman, deputy general manager of Bangladesh Shipping Corporation (BSC), reports bdnews24.com.
Banglar Samriddhi, owned by the BSC, had reached Ukraine on February 22, two days before Russia launched full-fledged assaults on the country.
On March 2, the vessel's bridge was hit by a shell, killing Hadisur Rahman, the third engineer on the ship.
The bulk carrier was later declared abandoned after the sailors, including two female cadets, left the ship with the body of their colleague the following day.
Three days after they were rescued from the ship, the crew members crossed the Moldovan border into Romania and stayed in a hotel in Bucharest.
