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DHAKA: The body of Bangladeshi national Md Shahed Ahmed, who was killed in a missile attack at King Khalid International Airport in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, has arrived in Dhaka. State Minister for Foreign Affairs Shama Obaed Islam received the body at the airport.
The aircraft carrying Shahed’s body landed at Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport at 8:35am on Friday (October 23).
Earlier, the Ministry of Expatriates’ Welfare and Overseas Employment confirmed the arrangements for repatriating his body in a press release signed by its Public Relations Officer, Md Shariful Islam.
Shahed was among 13 people killed in a Houthi missile attack on King Khalid International Airport in Riyadh on October 10. Another Bangladeshi killed in the attack was Md Nasrullah Badarpuri, an Umrah visa holder from Badarpur village in Nangalkot upazila of Cumilla. Another 27 Bangladeshis were injured in the attack.
Meanwhile, the family of the deceased received immediate financial assistance from the Wage Earners’ Welfare Board under the Ministry of Expatriates’ Welfare and Overseas Employment when the body was handed over. The assistance included Tk 35,000 for burial and transportation expenses and a special grant of Tk 50,000 because he had tragically lost his life in the attack.
