More than 50 Bangladeshi migrants who were stranded in Indonesia's Aceh province were repatriated to their home country on Wednesday, local television reported. According to dpa, the migrants were among more than 1,700 Bangladeshis and members of the Rohingya ethnic group from Myanmar who were rescued from boats after they were abandoned by human traffickers off Aceh in May. They were flown from the Kuala Namu airport in the neighbouring province of North Sumatra, Metro TV reported. Afrizal, a local immigration official, told Metro that the remaining Bangladeshis would be deported once the paperwork was completed. Television footage showed the Bangladeshis, dressed in blue shirts and wearing white Muslim skull caps, departing by bus to the airport.
