“This evacuation mission has been planned since July 12 and is expected to take less than 12 hours.
“Once we got the green light from our High Commissioner in Bangladesh, we secured the aircraft, but there was a slight delay because we were asked to wait to ensure our students reached our High Commission in Dhaka,” she told Bernama.
A total of 15 personnel from Wisma Putra, the Prime Minister’s Department, the National Security Council and the Malaysian National News Agency (Bernama) are involved in the mission.
On Monday, the prime minister said that the government has decided to bring back all Malaysians in Bangladesh due to security concerns following escalating tensions in that country.
He said this decision followed the Foreign Ministry’s monitoring of recent developments in Bangladesh.
