11 flights diverted from Dhaka due to dense fog
Between 4:16am to 10:16am, the flights landed at Hyderabad, Sylhet, Chittagong and Kolkata airports instead
Representational photo of a flight during foggy weather/Courtesy
Eleven flights were diverted due to dense fog from Dhaka's Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport today.
Between 4:16am to 10:16am, the flights landed at Hyderabad, Sylhet, Chittagong and Kolkata airports instead.
"The flights started returning to the Dhaka airport at 10:45am after the weather returned to normal," said Group Captain Kamrul Islam, executive director of the Dhaka airport.
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According to the Bangladesh Meteorologist Department (DMD), rain is likely to occur at one or two places over Dhaka, Rajshahi, Khulna, Barishal and Chattogram divisions on Thursday (18 January).
