Daughter receives Maksuda’s body
The body of Maksuda Begum, who died in Beirut of Lebanon allegedly due to the negligence of the Bangladesh embassy there, was handed over to her family last night.
Parul Alter Iva, daughter of Maksuda, received the body at Hazrat Shahjalal Intenational Airport in Dhaka, Bangladesh Ambassador to Lebanon Abdul Motaleb Sarker told The Daily Star.
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Maksuda’s body was sent back from Lebanon by a flight of Emirates airlines, he said.
On January 16, the 35-year-old migrant woman died of sickness at a hospital in Beirut.
Some of her fellow Bangladeshi migrants in Lebanon alleged that she died for lack of timely treatment and negligence of the Bangladesh embassy in Beirut, which the embassy officials denied.
In the last five months before her death, Maksuda was so sick that she could not move anywhere. “She had two tumors in her stomach. She was also suffering from kidney complications for several months,” Masud Rana, a fellow migrant, told The Daily Star over the phone from Lebanon on the day she died.
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