Bangladeshis, including national football team members, who are stuck in Nepal, are safe, said the officials in Dhaka and Bangladesh Embassy in Kathmandu.
They will start returning home once the flight operations on the Dhaka-Kathmandu route get normal, they said.
Nepal’s Tribhuvan International Airport (TIA) resumed services at 6pm on Wednesday, hours after closing its operations due to violent anti-government protests.
The TIA management asked passengers to contact their respective airlines for re-confirmation of their flights.
Foreign Affairs Adviser Md Touhid Hossain on Wednesday said Bangladeshis, stuck in Nepal, cannot be brought back through India because they do not have Indian visas.
He said that the protesters had gone to the hotel to look for their politicians, but they respectfully left when they saw the Bangladesh football team there.
“They have no bad feelings towards us. So, I don’t think there will be any crisis. Our embassy is in constant contact with them. We hope everyone will be able to come back safely,” Hossain told a small group of reporters at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
As a longstanding friend and neighbour of Nepal, Bangladesh on Tuesday said it remains confident in the ability of the resilient people of Nepal to restore peace and ensure stability.
“Bangladesh hopes that all sides will exercise maximum restraint and engage in peaceful and constructive dialogue to resolve any differences,” said the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in a statement.
The government of Bangladesh is “closely observing” the situation in Nepal and expressed its sincere condolences over the tragic loss of lives.
Bangladesh also extended its sincere sympathies to the families of the deceased, and wished a speedy recovery to all those injured.
