Bangladeshi worker in Bahrain dies ‘by suicide’
A Bangladeshi migrant, who has been living in Bahrain for some four years, was found hanging from a steel pipe on the second floor of a building in Manama, Bahrain, early Friday.
Sohel Azizul Matubbar, 32, went to Bahrain as a tailor but has been doing odd jobs for the last four years since he lost his job and overstayed his visa.
According to the Labour Market Regulatory Authority, Sohel hailed from Madaripur and went to work as a tailor to Bahrain, home to some four lakh Bangladeshis.
He was the second migrant worker to have committed suicide this week, after Indian national Gurbhej Singh on Tuesday night, reports Gulf Daily News (GDN) online from Bahrain.
Both bodies have been taken to the morgue at Salmaniya Medical Complex .
Bangladeshi Embassy community leader Taj Uddin Sikandar Ali told the GDN that they have been trying to track down Matubbar's family.
“According to his roommates he did not have a visa and was without a job for almost four years,” he said.
“We are trying to trace his family in Bangladesh using the copy of a passport that was found in his possession.”
One of the roommates said Matubbar used a bed sheet to hang himself from a steel pipe in the balcony.
He also described him as a loner – adding that he often did not take part in group activities.
“I saw him sitting in the balcony the night before and as always he was thoughtful and smoking,” said the Bangladeshi national on the condition of anonymity.
“I was woken up by the loud cries of another roommate at around 4am and was shocked to see him hanging from a steel pipe.
“One of our friends who went to work around the same time said that he saw him sitting there smoking, he was a heavy smoker, at least three packets a day.
“We are 24 men living in a flat with three rooms, eight in each room, and Shohel was very silent, he did not share much with anyone.
He said the flatmates felt they could have helped if Matubbar had shared his problems with them.
“We all get back from work and are always on phone with our families, but he was very quiet and spoke very little even to his family,” he recalled.
“Sometimes when we cooked we asked him to join us but he always said he ate from outside.
“I really wish he shared and we could have at least given him some solace – we are all struggling but suicide was not the solution.”
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