STORY: Millions head to hometowns in Bangladesh to celebrate Eid al-Adha
SHOOTING TIME: June 13, 2024
DATELINE: June 14, 2024
LENGTH: 00:00:35
LOCATION: Dhaka
CATEGORY: SOCIETY

SHOTLIST:
1. various of people at a railway station in Dhaka

STORYLINE:

With Eid al-Adha just around the corner, millions of Bangladeshis are packing bus and train stations and airports as they head to their hometowns to celebrate the festival of animal sacrifice and enjoy family reunion.

In Dhaka, long-distance bus stations, ferry terminals and train stations were seen overflowing with hundreds of thousands of home-bound passengers after work hours on Thursday, the last workday of the week before the Eid holidays.

While passengers crowded ferry, train and bus terminals, other city residents who had cars or hired vehicles were making their last-minute shopping and business transactions before their long road trip home.

Bangladeshi Muslims will celebrate Eid al-Adha on June 17 with the spirit of sacrifice, marking one of the major festivals in the South Asian nation. The festival is celebrated on the 10th day in the month of the lunar Islamic calendar after the holy Hajj.

The Bangladeshi government has already declared a three-day holiday of Eid vacation on June 16-18.

According to some estimates, about one-third of Dhaka's 20 million residents usually leave the capital city twice a year on Eid al-Fitr, the end of the Muslim fasting month of Ramadan, and Eid al-Adha.

Xinhua News Agency correspondents reporting from Dhaka.
(XHTV)