Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina left Beijing for Dhaka on Wednesday night, wrapping up her three-day bilateral visit to China at the invitation of her Chinese counterpart Li Qiang.

A special flight of the Biman Bangladesh Airlines, carrying the Prime Minister and her entourage members, departed the Beijing Capital International Airport for home at 10:05 pm (local time).

The Premier was earlier scheduled to leave Beijing for Dhaka on Thursday morning.

But the Prime Minister left Beijing a few hours earlier to attend her ailing daughter Saima Wazed, Foreign Minister Dr Hasan Mahmud said, in reply to a question about speculations over the Premier's early departure from Beijing, at a press briefing, BSS reports.

He said Saima Wazed was supposed to visit Beijing, but she had not been able to do so as she is very ill.

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