The body of Nahida Sultana Brishti, a Bangladeshi PhD student at the University of South Florida who was killed in the United States, arrived in Dhaka on Saturday morning, May 9, 2026. Her remains reached Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport via an Emirates Airlines flight from Dubai at around 9:15 a.m. The body had been sent from Orlando International Airport on Thursday night local time on Emirates flight EK-0220 and transferred through Dubai on flight EK-0582.

Earlier, Brishti’s first funeral prayer took place in Tampa on Wednesday local time. In the same incident, fellow Bangladeshi PhD student Jamil Ahmed Limon’s body had arrived in Bangladesh on May 4. Both were students at the University of South Florida and had gone missing on April 16. The following day, a friend reported their disappearance to the university authorities.

Police arrested Limon’s roommate, American citizen Hisham Abughurbeh, on suspicion of involvement. On April 24, Hillsborough County Sheriff’s Office recovered Limon’s mutilated body from a black garbage bag near Florida’s Howard Frankland Bridge.