DHAKA: Police in Nicaragua have rescued 15 Bangladeshi migrants wandering lost on a highway after their smugglers abandoned them.

Quoting Managua Police Commissioner Leonidas Roque, the dailymail.co.uk reported that the migrants were being taken from Costa Rica to Honduras. That route takes them across Nicaragua on their way to the United States.

Roque told local media Thursday the migrants were found "disoriented" about 12 miles (20 kms) south of Managua.

The Bangladeshi migrants said the smugglers had robbed them. They said they had walked for three days from the Costa Rican border.

They had paid the smuggler between $100 and $500 for the trip across Nicaragua.

One of the men said they had left Bangladesh because of political problems. They were taken to an immigration holding center.

BDST: 1532 HRS, JAN 8, 2016
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