Bodies of 6 Saudi fire victims back home
Saturday, 31 May 2014
FE Report
The bodies of six of the nine Bangladesh nationals who were burnt to death in a fire at a furniture-manufacturing factory in Riyadh on May 12 were brought home on Friday.
The six victims are Motiur, Selim, Jalal, Shah Alam, Zakir and Khorshed.
Wage Earners Welfare Board assistant director (information and public relations) Md Zahid Anwar said the Biman flight BG040 had landed at the Dhaka airport at about 3:00 pm carrying the bodies.
The nine Bangladesh nationals among 11 were burnt to death in the fire incident at Shifa Sanaya in Riyadh.
Of the Bangladeshi victims, seven hailed from Comilla while one each from Noakhali and Madaripur. They are Mohammad Jalal, 36, son of Haji Rustom Ali, M Abdul Gaffar, 35, son of Nurul Islam, M Selim, 37, son of Ramjan Ali, Bahauddin, 27, son of M Ismail Hossain, Nazir Hossain, 32, son of Jamsher Ali, M Motiur Rahman, 33, son of Abdul Karim and M Shah Alam, 35, son of Habibur Rahman of Comilla, Zakir Hossain of Noakhali and Khorshed of Madaripur.
Of them, the bodies of the six were brought back home on Friday.