Dhaka: A two-member team comprising counsellor at the Bangladesh Embassy, Kuwait SM Mahbubul Alam and a staff, is going to Yemen on Thursday to help repatriate Bangladesh nationals, now got stuck in the Aden city of war-torn Yemen, said a senior official at the Foreign Ministry here on Thursday.

The counsellor and the staff are expected to reach Yemen by tonight (Thursday night), said the official.

‘We'll depart from Kuwait this evening. We're expected to reach there (Aden, Yemen) by 2:00am,’ Mahbubul Alam told UNB through viber communication.

He said they are not sure yet about their arrival there as there is no available direct flight to Yemen right now. ‘If we can't go through the first flight, we'll try the second one. In that case, we'll arrive there on Friday morning.’

According to Foreign Ministry here, the officials will help verify or identify the Bangladeshi nationals in Yemen. The officials, if needed, will help Bangladeshi nationals to be on board in a ship.

Some 1500-3000 Bangladesh nationals are living in Yemen and all of them are not interested to come back, according to foreign secretary M Shahidul Haque.

‘We're sending two officers tomorrow from Oman to Djibouti who will then travel to Eden, Yemen and help verify/identify Bangladeshi nationals and issue necessary travel document, if needed, to help them to be on board in a ship,’ State Minister for Foreign Affairs M Shahriar Alam wrote on his Facebook page on Wednesday night.

In another facebook message on Thursday, he said, ‘Our officers from Kuwait are on there way to Djibouti.’

Earlier, Bangladesh formally requested the International Organization for Migration (IOM) to help repatriate Bangladesh nationals got stuck in troubled Yemen, a relatively safer zone in Yemen.

Bangladesh also requested India and Saudi Arabia to help repatriate Bangladesh nationals.

India agreed in principle to help Bangladesh depending on availability of space in ship as India is sending a ship to rescue Indian.

Meanwhile, the Indian High Commission in Dhaka tweeted saying, ‘India to assist in evacuation of Bangladesh nationals from Yemen.’