Bangladesh’s State Minister for Foreign Affairs, Shama Obaid Islam, stated that the government is maintaining communication with U.S. authorities to ensure a fair investigation and trial over the killing of two Bangladeshi students in Florida. She made the remarks on Monday morning at Dhaka’s Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport while receiving the remains of Jamil Ahmed Limon, one of the victims. The minister added that the process of bringing back the body of the other victim, Nahida Sultana Brishti, is underway and that the government will stand by the victims’ families.

Limon’s dismembered body arrived in Dhaka at 8:40 a.m. on May 4 after all legal procedures were completed in coordination with the Bangladesh Embassy in Washington, the Consulate General in Miami, the victim’s family, university authorities, local Bangladeshi expatriates, and police. His funeral prayer was held earlier at the Islamic Society of Tampa Bay Area mosque. Nahida Sultana Brishti’s body was identified on May 1 by the Hillsborough County Sheriff’s Office, and her first funeral prayer is scheduled for May 6 in Tampa.

The Bangladesh Embassy in Washington and the Miami Consulate are jointly coordinating the repatriation of Brishti’s remains to Bangladesh.