The body of Girish Chandra Sutradhar, a Bangladeshi national killed in Bahrain after being struck by missile debris from the ongoing Middle East war, arrived in Dhaka on Wednesday. The remains were transported on Emirates Airlines flight EK0582 and received at Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport by Commerce Minister Khandaker Abdul Muktadir, who later handed the body over to the victim’s younger brother, Naresh Sutradhar.

Earlier, on April 3, the body of another Bangladeshi worker, S.M. Tarek, who was also killed in Bahrain during the same conflict, had arrived in Dhaka. His remains were received by the Minister of Expatriates’ Welfare and Overseas Employment, Ariful Haque Chowdhury, along with State Ministers Md. Nurul Haque and Shama Obaid Islam from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

The repatriation of the victims underscores the human toll of the ongoing Middle East conflict on Bangladeshi migrant workers stationed in the region.