US-Bangla plane crash survivor Shahin Bepari returns

One of the injured victims of the US-Bangla plane crash, Shahin Bepari, was brought to Dhaka while another survivor Imrana Kabir Hashi was flown to Singapore today.

A Biman Bangladesh flight "BG 072" landed at the Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport with Shahin at 3:40pm, a source at Biman's public relations department told The Daily Star.

From the Dhaka airport, he is being directly taken to the burn unit of Dhaka Medical College Hospital (DMCH), the source said.

Meanwhile, Imrana Kabir Hashi was being treated at the ICU of Norvic International Hospital in Kathmandu with 30 percent burn injuries.

She was flown to Singapore around 1:00am (Nepal time), Raj Kumar Chhetri, general manager of the Tribhuvan International Airport (TIA) of Kathmandu, told The Daily Star in the morning.

Her husband Rakibul died in the crash. The couple married in 2012, family sources said.

Survivors Mehedi and his wife Shwarna and Almunnahar Annie arrived on Friday while survivor Shahreen came back on Thursday.

They have been undergoing treatment in separate cabins of Dhaka Medical College Hospital's burn and plastic surgery unit.

Sheikh Rashed Rubayet 33, a senior executive of Bank Asia, was admitted to the burn unit of the DMCH on his arrival from Kathmandu yesterday afternoon.

Besides, another survivor Kabir Hossain is likely to return to Dhaka today.

The government has formed a 13-member medical board, headed by Coordinator of DMCH's Burn and Plastic Surgery Unit Dr Samanta Lal Sen, for quick recovery of the survivors.

At least 51 people were killed as the US-Bangla Airlines aircraft crashed and burst into flames while landing at the Kathmandu airport in Nepal on March 12.

Twenty-eight Bangladeshis, 22 Nepalis, and one Chinese citizen were killed in the deadly crash.