Dreams shattered

The dream of Shahnaz Akter to see her husband Baha Uddin and their 14-month-old son happy together will remain unfulfilled as Baha arrived in a coffin from Saudi Arabia yesterday.
Baha Uddin could not take his son Abdullah in his lap even for once as he had to migrate to the Middle East country before his birth.
"He desperately wanted to come home and see his son. But he could not do so because of a Tk 5 lakh loan he had taken before going to Saudi Arabia," Shahnaz told The Daily Star.
The bodies of Baha Uddin and two others, Md Gaffar and Mizan, all residents of Comilla, were brought home from the kingdom.
Bahauddin, 26, with eight other Bangladeshi workers, died in a factory fire in Riyadh on May 12.
Abdul Gaffar, elder son of Setara Begum, moved to Saudi Arabia when he was just 16.
He could not come home for 10 years, said Gaffar's father Nurul Islam. “My son used to bear all the expenses of the eight-member family. I do not know what I will do now,” the old man added.
A Bangladesh Biman fight carrying the bodies landed at Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport in the capital around 4:25pm, confirmed Zahid Anowar, assistant director of Wage Earners' Welfare Board of the expatriates' welfare and overseas employment ministry.  
The bodies were handed over to their relatives at the airport with Tk 35,000 for each burial.
Earlier, the bodies of six other migrants were brought back home on Friday.
Uncertainty about getting compensation from the Saudi factory authorities still lingers as a probe is still going on into the ownership of the factory. However, the Bangladeshi government has assured of Tk 3 lakh compensation for each of the families.