2 Bangladeshi workers found dead in Malaysia

Local police recovered the bodies of two Bangladeshi workers in Kuala Lumpur city of Malaysia on Sunday, confirmed Hedayetul Islam Mandal, first secretary of Bangladesh High Commission in KL yesterday.

“We have no clue how the killing happened. We can know it only after probe. Police have already started probe into the matter,” he told The Daily Star last evening.

Brahmanbaria District Association in Malaysia yesterday went to the high commission and demanded that the families of the deceased get justice, Hedayetul said. He, however, did not say anything about identities of the victims.

The victims are from Bancharampur upazila of the district and are related, reports our Brahmanbaria correspondent. They are Md Shipon Mia of Moricha Khalpar village; and Md Nasir Uddin, from Kanainagar village.

The Daily Star talked to Abdur Rashid, an uncle of the victims.

Quoting another Bangladeshi worker in Malaysia, Abdur Rashid said Shipon and Nasir used to work in a residential hotel and lived in the same room.

Hands, legs and eyes of the deceased were tied when their bodies were recovered, he said, adding that the reason behind the deaths could not be known yet.

Hearing the news, family members of the victims communicated with officials of the Ministry of Expatriates' Welfare and Overseas Employment in Dhaka.

The officials informed the family members that Shipon's body is likely to be brought back to Dhaka today. But there is an uncertainty whether Nasir's body can be brought back or not, because his legal tenure to stay in Malaysia had already been expired, Abdur Rashid told The Daily Star.

Rashid could not tell the names of the ministry officials with whom the victim's family members spoke to.