Bangladeshis in Nepal safe; will return home soon: Officials

Bangladeshis, including the football team members, who are stuck in Nepal, are safe, said officials in Dhaka and the 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 went 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.