Dhaka, Bangladesh (BBN) - The bodies of 13 Bangladeshi workers killed in a building fire in Bahrain on January 11 arrived in the capital Dhaka Tuesday evening.
A flight of Emirates Airlines carrying the bodies of the Bangladeshi fire victims landed at Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport at about 6:35pm, officials said.
The body of another Bangladeshi worker, Oli Ahmed, 28, of Chouddagram in Comilla, who died in a building collapse on December 31 last year in Bahrain, has also been brought back home in the same flight, according to reports.
Khandker Mosharraf Hossain, expatriates' welfare and overseas employment minister, who is present at the airport, will hand the bodies over to their families.
The minister will also provide each of the families with BDT 35,000 for the burial.
The government will later give the families BDT 200,000 each in compensation.
A total of 13 Bangladeshi workers were killed in the devastating fire at a labour camp in the Bahrain capital of Manama on January 11 this year.
The victims were identified as Nazir Ahmed, son of Sagir Ahmed of Boalkhali upazila of Chittagong; Jasim, son of Abu Naser Miah; Saiful
Islam and Swapan, sons of Shahid Miah; Md Anwar, son of Abul Bashar of Nabinagar upazila in Brahmanbaria; Mahbub Alam, son of Rashid
Ahmed and Jamal, son Abdul Aziz, at Patia in Chittagong; Shadat and Titu Mia, sons of Alam at Kachua of Chandpur; Mohammad Osman Gani,
son of Abdur Rahim of Sonaimuri of Noakhali; Jaru Mia, son of Chand Mia of Nabinagar Brahmanbaria, Mofizul Islam, son of Joynal Abedin of
Boro Banisha, Chouara of Comilla sadar (Dakshin), and Shahin Khan, son of Abdus Sattar Khan of Matlab in Chandpur.
BBN/SSR/AD-22Jan13-9:25 pm (BST)
