Members of the Bangladesh national football team, along with a small group of Bangladeshi nationals stranded in Nepal, returned home on Thursday afternoon by a special aircraft of the Bangladesh Air Force.

According to the Inter-Services Public Relations (ISPR), a total of 55 passengers were on board -- 38 football team members, coaches, team officials and delegates, 16 sports journalists, and one student coordinator.

A diplomat at the Bangladesh Embassy in Kathmandu told UNB, around 400 Bangladesh nationals, altogether, left Kathmandu on Thursday by two flights of Biman Bangladesh Airlines and the special aircraft of the Bangladesh Air Force.

On September 3, the Bangladesh national football team departed for Nepal to participate in two 'FIFA Tier 1 International Friendly Matches' against the Nepal national football team.

Meanwhile, the car of Bangladesh Ambassador to Nepal Md Shafiqur Rahman was vandalized during the recent chaotic situation in Kathmandu.

Despite the flag being shown, one of the groups blocked the car and vandalized it although other groups facilitated the movement of the car later seeing Bangladesh’s flag, a diplomat at the embassy told UNB.

“The Ambassador was not inside the car at that time. The Deputy Head of Mission was moving with other staff to the hotel to escort them to the airport at that time,” he said, adding that the football team management was hurrying for the flight at that time and they had to respond.

Meanwhile, a Bangladeshi family was physically assaulted and looted amid the chaotic situation in Nepal when the protesters vandalised a five-star hotel on Tuesday.

The frightened family was kept at the Ambassador's residence on Wednesday.