Bangladeshi workers in Lebanon appeal for urgent repatriation

The Beirut explosion further compounded sufferings of the migrant workers as many of them living in the damage radius of the explosions- particularly in Geitawi, Bourj Hammoud and Ras El Nabaa neighbourhoods- have lost their earnings
and homes.
International Organisation for Migration (IOM) estimates that roughly eight per cent of the estimated 300,000 people affected in Greater Beirut are migrant workers, primarily from Ethiopia, Bangladesh and the Philippines. At least 150 migrant workers have been injured and 15 died in the explosion.
Sources said, around 1.5 lakh Bangladeshis are working in Lebanon, nearly 30,000 of them are undocumented.