Bodies of 13 Bangladeshis arrive today
The bodies of 13 Bangladeshi workers, who died in a fire in Bahrain on January 11, will arrive in Dhaka around 5:00pm today.
A flight of Emirates Airlines EK 838 will carry the bodies.
Upon receiving the bodies at Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport, Khandker Mosharraf Hossain, expatriates' welfare and overseas employment minister, will hand them over to their families.
The government will give the families Tk 2 lakh each in compensation and an additional Tk 35,000 for the burial of each.
According to officials in the Bahraini capital Manama, 135 labourers, including the 13, lived in a building where no maintenance work had been carried out for 35 years, reported UAE newspaper Gulf News last week.
The fire swept through the labour camp, located in Manama, where most of the workers were from Bangladesh.
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