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PM returns home cutting Singapore tour short

| Updated: March 14, 2018 09:58:02


PM returns home cutting Singapore tour short

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina returned home on Tuesday evening cutting her four-day official visit short following the crash of a Bangladeshi plane in Nepal.

A regular flight of Biman Bangladesh Airlines carrying the Prime Minister and her entourage landed at Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport at 6:15pm, reports UNB.

Earlier, the Prime Minister left Changi International Airport in Singapore at 4 pm local time.

On Monday, at least 50 people died as an aircraft of US-Bangla Airlines from Dhaka to Kathmandu crashed with 71 people on board at Tribhuvan International Airport in the capital of the Himalayan country.

The Prime Minister has already talked to Nepalese Prime Minister Khadga Prasad Sharma Oli over telephone from Singapore to inquire about the plane crash.

Sheikh Hasina went to Singapore on Sunday on a four-day official visit at the invitation of her Singaporean counterpart Lee Hsien Loong.

During her stay in Singapore, the Prime Minister on Monday paid a courtesy call first female Muslim President of Singapore Halimah Yacob.

She held a meeting with Prime Minister of Singapore Lee Hsien Loong and joined a luncheon hosted by Lee Hsien Loong.

Sheikh Hasina also visited the Port of Singapore, one of the busiest seaports in the world, on Monday.

On Tuesday, the Prime Minister unveiled an orchid named after her at National Orchid Garden of Singapore Botanical Garden.

Later, she addressed the Bangladesh-Singapore Business Forum-2018 and Bangladesh-Singapore Business roundtable at a hotel.

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