Death of the migrant worker leaves his poor family broke

The grief-stricken father Shahjahan Mollah and sister Kalpana Akter cry their heart out holding the coffin of Jewel Mollah, 24, at Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport in the capital where his body arrived from Tehran yesterday. The migrant worker was beaten to death by six compatriots in Iran on December 14 last year. Photo: Palash Khan

The body of migrant worker Jewel Mollah, who met with a tragic death in Iran 23 days ago, arrived at Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport in the capital yesterday.
The 24-year-old youth was allegedly beaten to death by six of his compatriots over a dispute at Bandar Abbas in Iran on December 14 last year.
The International Organization for Migration (IOM) donated the money to bring the body back home, said Binoy Krishna Mallik, executive director of Rights Jessore, an NGO, which dealt with the process.
He was one of the 30 Bangladeshi migrants confined in Iran for over three months at Bandar Abbas since September last year by a gang of abductors, also Bangladeshis.
Jewel along with his 29 compatriots got freed from confinement on November 24 but six of his fellow Bangladeshis

beat him to death in a temporary shelter at Bandar Abbas on December 14, blaming him for their abduction.
The six alleged that Jewel, himself a victim of abduction, helped criminals abduct them in the United Arab Emirates and send them to Iran.
The 29 men returned to Dhaka on December 22.
It was an unbearable shock for Jewel's family to receive his body while he was supposed to come back alive with other compatriots.
His sister Kalpana Akter and father Shahjahan Mollah were lamenting at the airport, and the sight of his lifeless body only added to their grief.  
“I am an ill-fated father on earth. I could not save my son. I have to live with the anguish of losing him,” said the wretched old man.
Shahjahan thinks he should not have sent her son abroad spending a huge sum of money. “I lost everything--my son as well as my money. I pray nobody else faces such a tragedy.”
The thought of what her poor parents will go through now exacerbates the agony of Jewel's sister Kalpana.
"My brother went to the afterworld leaving my father and mother in distress. Mother has been passing her days in bed crying for Jewel since she heard the news of his death,” she said.
Now, there is nothing but seeking justice for his death, Kalpana added.
The six migrants responsible for Jewel's death are now in jail after they were arrested in a murder case filed with Airport Police Station by Jewel's father.
Jewel will be buried at his village home in Bhederganj upazila in Shariatpur today.