Hadisur’s Body To Be Taken to Romania Today

The body of Mohammad Hadisur Rahman - the third engineer of MV Banglar Samriddhi, who was killed in a rocket attack on the port of Alvia, Ukraine - is being taken to Romania from Ukraine.

Hadisur's body will be taken to the Romanian capital Bucharest via Moldova on Thursday, said Bangladesh Merchant Marine Officers Association BMMOA General Secretary Marine Engineer Md. Sakhawat Hossain on Wednesday night.

He said the transfer of Hadisur's body from Ukraine to Romania was delayed due to the absence of concerned officials. But all preparations have been completed on Wednesday. On Thursday (March 10) morning, a freezer van carrying the body of Hadisur will leave Ukraine and reach Bucharest via Moldova.

The ship 'Banglar Samriddhi' owned by Bangladesh Shipping Corporation (BSC) was rented by the Danish company Delta Corporation. The ship sailed from Mumbai via Turkey to the Ukrainian port of Alvia on February 22. It was scheduled to leave Alvia for the Italian port of Ravenna on February 24 with cement clay. However, the ship with 29 crew members was stranded at the port of Alvia due to the Russian invasion in Ukraine.

Hadisur Rahman, the ship's third engineer, was killed in a rocket attack on March 2. The body of Hadisur and the other 28 sailors were later rescued in collaboration with an international voluntary organization. On Saturday (March 5), 28 sailors went to Moldova from a bunker (shelter house) adjacent to the Ukrainian port of Olvia. They crossed the Ukraine border on Sunday afternoon and reached Romania via Moldova.

Then on Wednesday (March 9), a flight of Turkish Air carrying 28 sailors landed at Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport in Dhaka.