Thousands of Bangladeshi migrant workers in Lebanon are passing days in immense hardship since the Gulf nation plunged into economic crisis last year, which driven most of them into unemployment.  
The Beirut explosion further compounded sufferings of the migrant workers as many of them living in the damage radius of the explosions- particularly in Geitawi, Bourj Hammoud and Ras El Nabaa neighbourhoods- have lost their earnings
and homes.

Half of the workers have already lost their jobs and who are in work have already faced pay cup by two third of their salary following the economic crisis in Lebanon. Worried about their fate, Bangladeshi workers in Lebanon appealed for urgent repatriation. However, Expatriates' Welfare and Overseas Employment Minister Imran Ahmad said, bringing back all them is quiet impossible at this moment. "It is not possible to bring them back suddenly.