Bodies of 3 Bangladeshis arrive today
The bodies of three Bangladeshi workers, who were killed at a construction site accident in Malaysia on Monday night, will reach Dhaka today.
A flight of Bangladesh Biman carrying the bodies will land at Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport around 6:30am, Musharrat Jebin, second secretary (labour) at Bangladesh high commission in Kuala Lumpur, told The Daily Star over the phone yesterday.
“The victims' employer Malaysian company has borne the cost of sending the bodies. Besides, the company will compensate the victims' families,” she said.
Khondaker Showkat Hossain, secretary of expatriates' welfare and overseas employment ministry, said the bodies would be handed to the families at the airport.
The ministry will give each victim's family Tk 35,000 as burial costs and Tk 3 lakh each as financial assistance, he mentioned.
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