Kidnapped Bangladeshi labourer in Libya, Helal Uddin talked to his family over the phone on Tuesday.
He was kidnapped by unknown group of militants on March 6.
Hellal’s voice was not clear in the phone call, it seemed that he was crying or shocked. He told his wife while gasping, “I heard them 
The phone call came as a surprise for everyone in the family. Hellal had no contact what so ever for the last 18 days. His whereabouts were unknown by everyone, even The Bangladesh Embassy in Tripoli had no idea.
Aleya Khatun, wife of abducted Hellal received the phone call at 10.30am. But Hellal could not understand her voice and asked for his eldest daughter Helema on the phone.
Helena asked her father about his health and current whereabouts. Hellal said, “I am alive. They might release me in two or three days.”
“Light food. Once a day,” he replied when asked what they gave him to eat.
The four minute phone call ended at that moment. The captors took away the phone, according to the family members.
The Bangladesh Embassy firstly feared that the much feared ISIS militants abducted the hostages. But none of the many fighting groups in Libya took responsibility of the abductions.
Hellal Uddin and another Bangladeshi, Anowar Hossain was taken hostage along with 7 other foreigners, four from Philippines, one from Austria, Czechoslovakia and Ghana. They were all abducted from the Al-Ghani oil field, south of the Sirte city.
Anowar Hossain, the other Bangladeshi hostage had no further contact after the abduction. Relatives talked to him last on March 5.
– Ittefaq Report