Family members of Saudi bomb explosion victim demand return of body
Barisal Correspondent :
Family members of one of the four Bangladeshi victims killed in suicidal bomb explosion carried out by ISIS on August 6 at Abha Cantonment Mosque in Asir province in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia have sought return of the dead body.
Syed Abdur Rashid, a businessman from Kalashkathi village of Bakerganj upazila in Barisal, said his brother-in-law Mainul Mridha, son of late Mannan Mridha, from Kathipara under Garuria union of the upazila, was one of the 17 victims of that explosion including 4 Bangladeshi.
Mainul was eldest among the five brothers and three sisters of his family.
He went to KSA in 1998.
Mainul visited home in 2014. On August 4, 2015, Mainul talked over phone with family members and assured to return, marry and settle in the country as soon as possible.
However on Friday, Tanvir from Comilla, another Saudi expatriate and roommate of Mainul, in call phone informed family members that Mainul was one of the four Bangladeshis among 17 victims killed in a suicide bomb blast carried out by the ISIS activists at the Abha Cantonment Mosque during Zohr prayer on Thursday noon.
We contacted with the Bangladesh Embassy in KSA about return of the dead body.
Since hearing the death report of Mainul, his mother became deaf and dumb in grief and family members wanted not the money as compensations, but return of the dead body to bury at family graveyard as soon as possible, Abdur Rashid said.
Family members of one of the four Bangladeshi victims killed in suicidal bomb explosion carried out by ISIS on August 6 at Abha Cantonment Mosque in Asir province in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia have sought return of the dead body.
Syed Abdur Rashid, a businessman from Kalashkathi village of Bakerganj upazila in Barisal, said his brother-in-law Mainul Mridha, son of late Mannan Mridha, from Kathipara under Garuria union of the upazila, was one of the 17 victims of that explosion including 4 Bangladeshi.
Mainul was eldest among the five brothers and three sisters of his family.
He went to KSA in 1998.
Mainul visited home in 2014. On August 4, 2015, Mainul talked over phone with family members and assured to return, marry and settle in the country as soon as possible.
However on Friday, Tanvir from Comilla, another Saudi expatriate and roommate of Mainul, in call phone informed family members that Mainul was one of the four Bangladeshis among 17 victims killed in a suicide bomb blast carried out by the ISIS activists at the Abha Cantonment Mosque during Zohr prayer on Thursday noon.
We contacted with the Bangladesh Embassy in KSA about return of the dead body.
Since hearing the death report of Mainul, his mother became deaf and dumb in grief and family members wanted not the money as compensations, but return of the dead body to bury at family graveyard as soon as possible, Abdur Rashid said.