Libya missile attack: Bodies of 2 siblings arrive

The bodies of two Bangladeshi siblings Swapan and Milon, who were killed in a missile attack on their residential camp in Benghazi city in eastern Libya, arrived at home on Friday morning. A flight of Turkish Airlines carrying the two bodies landed at Hazrat Shahjalal (RA) International Airport in Dhaka around 5:30am, said an official at the Expatriates’ Welfare and Overseas Employment Ministry. Azharul Haque, joint secretary of the ministry, received the bodies and handed those over to the deceased’s family members after necessary formalities. An amount of Tk 35,000 was given for each of the victims’ family for their burial and sending the bodies to their respective village homes, said Anwar Jahid, assistant director of Wage Earners’ Welfare Fund of the ministry. Swapan and his younger brother Milon, sons of Abdul Kuddus Shayal of Shariatpur district, and two other people, who also migrated from Bangladesh, used to work in water purification plant Sama Libya in Bengazi and live at a residential camp close to their workplace. A missile slammed on the labour camp at about 10:30pm on June 21 when 32 Bangladeshis were sleeping there, leaving the two siblings killed and two others injured, according to UNB.