She landed at the Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport in the capital on Tuesday.
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The woman alleged that she had been abused and tortured by the owner of the house where she worked in Saudi Arabia. The owner is also the father of her child, she said.
Worried about how to return home with her child as she might fall victim to social stigma, the woman has taken shelter at the BRAC Learning Center in the capital s Ashkona, said Shariful Hasan, head of BRAC s migration programme.
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Saudi returnee woman leaves child at Dhaka airport
A Saudi Arabia returnee woman allegedly left an eight-month old baby girl at Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport on Friday.
Members of Airport Armed Police Battalion (APBn) rescued the baby this morning.
APBn sources said a woman along with the child landed at the airport around 2am from Saudi Arabia by a Saudi Airlines flight.
The woman along with the baby was found sitting beside the arrival belt the entire night. But, she disappeared from the airport as dawn breaks.
Quoting co-passenger Asma Begum, APBn’s additional police superintendent (media) Alamgir Hossain said the woman was weeping the whole night and said she married a man in Saudi Arabia with whom she has a daughter. But, they got divorced before returning home.
Drug traffickers smuggled four to five stashes of yaba pills in luggages and shipping boxes out of the country through the airports every month in the last two years.
Anti-narcotic officials and law enforcers said the recipients were mostly in other South Asian countries, the Middle East and the US.
Several drug rackets were involved in shipping the pills brought in from Myanmar, they said after interrogating several arrested traffickers and keeping a watch on several others.
Since there is no 3D baggage scanner at the airports, the gangs simply shipped the stashes undetected via overseas courier and postal services.