Hadisur’s Body Reaches Home

The body of Md Hadisur Rahman, the third engineer of Bangladeshi vessel ‘Banglar Samriddhi’, reached the country on Monday noon, reports media.

Hadisur was killed in a missile attack on their ship in Ukraine on March 3.

The plane carrying the body of Hadisur reached Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport at 12 noon, airport sources said.

Earlier, the body was scheduled to reach Dhaka on Sunday from Romania via Istanbul,  but the flight carrying the body failed to take off on time due to inclement weather in Istanbul, said Md Shakawat Hossain, General Secretary of the Bangladesh Merchant Marine Officers Association (BMMOA).

On March 9, the 28 surviving crew members of the Bangladeshi ship arrived in Dhaka from war-torn Ukraine.

They were taken to a bunker in Ukraine on March 3 and later moved to Romania, from where they flew to Dhaka.

The Bangladesh Shipping Corporation (BSC) ship had been stranded at Olvia port in Ukraine since February 23, following Russia’s invasion of its eastern European neighbour.

Hadisur’s Body was preserved in a bunker near Ukraine as the procedure to bring back Hadisur’s body was being delayed due to the worsening situation in Ukraine.