Some 175 Bangladeshi workers returned home from Saudi Arabia amid a crackdown on undocumented workers in the Middle Eastern kingdom.

A Saudi Arabian Airlines flight carrying the workers, all of them males, landed at the Dhaka airport late on Sunday (Sept 15), UNB quoted Shariful Hasan, the head of BRAC Migration Programme, saying.  

The workers who returned said hundreds of workers are being arrested by the Saudi government every day as over 1000 Bangladeshis are now there at Riyadh Deportation Camp, according to the news agency.

The workers, who were sent back, claimed that they were deported despite having valid documents before adding that the Bangladesh embassy did not take any measures, says the report.

According to the Saudi Press Agency (SPA), the kingdom has arrested around 3.8 million foreigners as it continues its crackdown on labour and residency violators.

Saudi Arabia has been detaining people for residential, labour and border security regulations since November 2017.

A total of 3,790,173 people have been arrested, including over 2.95 million for residency violations, 583,602 for breaking labour laws and 247,220 for flouting border regulations, the report said.

The latest figures indicate that 544, 521 people have been arrested since early June.

The report also stated that 940,100 expatriates have been deported to their respective countries since November 2017.