Set afire in Malaysia, Bangladeshi migrant dies
A Bangladeshi migrant worker died on Sunday after an Indonesian woman had set fire to his body in Malaysia following a dispute over only Tk 7,700 equivalent of Malaysian ringgit on February 4.
Raju, 32, a resident of Jhikargachha upazila in Jessore, succumbed to his injuries at a hospital in George Town, the capital of Penang state in Malaysia.
His body was kept at the hospital mortuary, said Begum Shahida Sultana, first secretary (Labour Wing) at Bangladesh High Commission in Kuala Lumpur, over phone yesterday.
Malaysian Criminal Investigation Department in Penang arrested the woman near the scene at a construction site in Bukit Mertajam area of George Town several hours after the incident.
A murder case would be filed in this regard by the Malaysian police, Sultana told The Daily Star. She added the woman, who set fire to Raju and his bike pouring petrol, claimed he had owed the amount to her.
However, Raju's nephew Kamruzzaman, who is also a migrant worker in Malaysia, yesterday trashed the woman's claim.
"She had supplied a worker from Myanmar to the construction site of my uncle [Raju]. After eight days the worker quit with his 360 ringgit partial salary," he told The Daily Star over phone from Penang.
But the Indonesian woman claimed the amount from Raju on behalf of the Myanmar national. She also had an argument with him before he flew to Bangladesh on January 5.
Raju returned to his workplace after having his machine-readable passport on January 23, Kamruzzaman added.
Raju, who used to work as a construction contractor for around 14 years in Malaysia, left behind his wife and a 15-year-old son, who is a class eight student at a local school in Jessore.
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