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Two Bangladeshis were killed and 24 others injured in an attack at King Khalid International Airport in Riyadh, the Saudi capital, the Bangladesh Embassy said on Sunday night.
The injured include 13 Umrah pilgrims and 11 workers. They are receiving treatment at different hospitals in Riyadh, with three in intensive care at King Abdullah Hospital. Their conditions are stable, according to the embassy.
The incident occurred at around 3:15am on Saturday, when a missile struck Terminal 3 of the airport, causing casualties among passengers from Bangladesh and other countries.
Preliminary information indicated that the attack killed 12 people and injured 309 others, including two Bangladeshis among the dead and 24 among the injured.
The embassy said it was maintaining contact with hospital authorities to monitor the treatment of the injured Bangladeshis. A delegation from the mission visited the three patients in intensive care at King Abdullah Hospital.
They were identified as Hafez Hasan of Dhaka, Kazi Nurullah of Brahmanbaria and expatriate worker Md Omar Faruk.
Two Bangladeshis, Safkat Rahman of Naogaon and Md Daudul Islam of Cumilla, are being treated at National Guard Hospital. Safkat remains unconscious.
Md Saimul Islam Sourav and Abul Mansur Md Riaz Uddin, both from Dhaka, are receiving treatment at Riyadh Medical Hospital, while Md Abdullah of Dhaka is at Prince Sultan Military Hospital.
Three Bangladeshi workers, including Arman Hossain of Dhaka, are being treated at the Takhassusi branch of Sulaiman Al Habib Hospital.
Other injured Bangladeshis are receiving treatment at Kingdom Hospital, King Khalid Medical City, Prince Mohammed bin Abdulaziz Hospital, Ejtah Sanad Hospital, Sulaiman Fakeeh Hospital and the Al Sahafa branch of Sulaiman Al Habib Hospital.
According to the embassy, all the injured Bangladeshis had been waiting in transit at the airport for connecting flights from Riyadh to Jeddah.
The attack left around 500 passengers stranded, including people arriving from Bangladesh and those waiting to travel to domestic and international destinations via Riyadh. Passengers waiting to return to Bangladesh were also affected.
The embassy arranged accommodation and meals for 100 passengers who had arrived from Bangladesh or were waiting to travel to destinations across Saudi Arabia. They were accommodated at Marriott and Radisson hotels and the dormitory of Princess Nourah University.
Special buses were arranged to transport 67 people who had arrived from Bangladesh wearing ihram garments for Umrah from Riyadh to Jeddah.
The embassy also made arrangements to send around 400 Bangladeshi passengers stranded after the cancellation of Saudia Airlines flight SV804 from Riyadh to Dhaka to Bangladesh via King Fahd International Airport in Dammam.
In addition, the mission assisted two Bangladeshi workers travelling from Riyadh to Bahrain through the Al Khobar land border.
