A total of 12 Bangladeshis, whose flight from Afghanistan was cancelled after two bomb blasts outside Kabul airport on Thursday, were on their way home, said the foreign ministry.

According to the officials of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the Bangladeshis would be flown in via a third country. Fifteen Bangladeshis were stuck in Afghanistan.

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Mashfee Binte Shams, secretary (east) at the ministry, yesterday said, “Six of them flew in a flight arranged by the US.”

Further details about the third country could not be known immediately, she added.

The other six Bangladeshis were scheduled to fly last night, she said.

They would fly in the flight that will also carry about 160 Afghan students of Asian University for Women (AUW) in Chattogram, she added.

The three officials of Brac International were trying to arrange another flight soon, Shams said, adding, “We will help in any way we can to help them return home.”

The 15 Bangladeshis and 160 were supposed to fly from Afghanistan to Bangladesh last Thursday and they also went to the Hamid Karzai International Airport but the flight was cancelled at the last moment following the bomb blasts that killed nearly 100 people, including Afghans and US troops.

There were about 30 Bangladeshis stranded in Afghanistan since the Taliban’s seizing control of the country on August 15 following the withdrawal of US troops.

Three Brac officials were evacuated to Kazakhstan under UN arrangements on August 23 and two others to Qatar under US arrangement.

The rest of the Bangladeshis stranded were yet to approach Bangladesh authorities for returning, Mashfee Binte Shams said.