The bodies of two Bangladeshi brothers, Fayez Ahmed Sajib, 29, and Farhad Hossain Sujon, 21, who were killed in a road crash in Saudi Arabia, were buried in their home village of Ganipur in Chandraganj, Lakshmipur. Their funeral prayers were held at Kamarhat Mosque field on Tuesday morning before they were laid side by side in the family graveyard.

The brothers were sons of Abdul Malek of Khalifar Bari in Ganipur village. According to family sources, Sajib had run a date business in the Dammam area of Saudi Arabia for a long time. Earlier this year, he took his younger brother Sujon to Saudi Arabia to help with the business.

On the night of July 15, their date-laden pickup lost control while returning from a garden and struck a truck-lorry parked beside the road. Both brothers died at the scene. After legal procedures were completed, their bodies were sent to Bangladesh on Monday night. Relatives, local residents, representatives and worshippers attended the funeral. Sajib is survived by his wife and a two-year-old son, while the family has lost two earning members.