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Over 7.3m mobile SIM users left Dhaka in 4 days to celebrate Eid

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Holiday makers rush towards home boarding on the train’s roof to celebrate Eid-ul-Fitr with their relatives. The picture was taken from Joydebpur railway in Gazipur on 29 April.
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Over 7.3 million (73 lakh) SIM subscribers of different mobile operators have left Dhaka for their respective village homes in the last four days to celebrate Eid-ul-Fitr with their near and dear ones, reports UNB.

A total of 43,09,216 SIM subscribers have left the capital in the last two days, posts, telecommunications and information technology minister Mustafa Jabbar shared the information through a Facebook post on Sunday.

He shared a list provided by mobile operators that showed 1,932,990 mobile SIM subscribers left the capital on 29 April and 2,376,226 on 30 April.

Of them, 1,862,136 were Grameenphone users; 1,176,340 Robi users, 1,124,732 Banglalink users, and 146,008 Teletalk users.

Mustafa Jabbar said approximately another 3 million SIM users left Dhaka in the previous two days.

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