Hasina sends condolence message to King Salman

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina, who has been visiting the United States to attend the 70th UNGA, has sent a message of condolence from New York to the Custodian of the Two Holiest Mosques, Salman bin Abdulaziz Al-Saud, the king of Saudi Arabia. The Bangladesh prime minister, in her message, expressed her deep shock at the loss of lives and injuries in a stampede during the Hajj pilgrimage in Mina, outside Mecca on Thursday. Sheikh Hasina, staying at a hotel in the centre of the New York City to join the 70th United Nations General Assembly, said, ‘The people and government of Bangladesh join me in expressing their deepest condolences and heartfelt sympathies to Your Majesty, and through you to the bereaved family members of the deceased and the injured people from different countries’. She also prayed to Almighty Allah for granting them the accepted Hajj and the highest place in the paradise.
“May the Almighty Allah grant the victims and their near and dear ones the fortitude and patience to bear this irreparable loss,” she added. At least 719 Hajj pilgrims, including five Bangladeshi pilgrims, died and around 1000 others injured in the worst ever tragedy in Mecca in decades.
- biplab