Dhaka, Mar 23 (Just News): The bodies of the three remaining Bangladeshi victims of the US-Bangla aircraft crash arrived in the capital yesterday.
A Biman Bangladesh Airlines flight carrying the bodies touched down at Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport (HSIA) around 4:50pm.
The victims are Nazrul Islam, 62, of Rajshahi, Molla Alifuzzaman, 30, of Khulna and Pias Roy, 23, of Barisal.
According to the victims' family members and relatives, Nazrul was identified from a tag of a tailoring shop, Alifuzzaman from his broken teeth and Pias from his mobile phone.
On March 19, bodies of 23 other Bangladeshi victims returned home. But the three others could not be brought in as their identities were not confirmed.
The March 12 crash of US-Bangla flight BS211 killed 49 people, including 26 Bangladeshis. At least 20 passengers, including 10 Bangladeshis, survived the accident.
Yesterday, victims' family members had been waiting at gate-8 of HSIA since noon to receive the bodies.
Pias' father Sukhendu Bikash Roy said, “My son was supposed to start his internship within two months as he completed his MBBS final exams. I had a dream that he will serve the people as a doctor. The fatal place crash has shattered my dream. How will I console myself? How will I comfort his mother?”
Pias was a student at Sheikh Sayera Khatun Medical College in Gopalganj.
“He was the apple of our eyes. To raise our son, we had to sacrifice a lot. Now I will have to carry his coffin on my shoulder. I don't want such an incident occurs to any other father,” he said while trying to hold back tears.
Nargis Akhtar Konok, a final year student at Uttara Women's Medical College, was waiting to receive her father's body.
She said people come to the airport either to receive or see off their loved ones. “But we are here to receive the body of our father. We have become orphan,” Nargis said, her voice choked with emotion.
Her father had planned to marry her off after returning from Nepal. But the fatal accident has ruined the plan.
Nargis along with her only sister Naznin Akhtar Kakon went to the Army Stadium on March 19 to receive the body of her mother Akhtara Begum.
Their father will be laid to rest beside their mother in a Rajshahi graveyard.
Another victim Alifuzzaman's father and mother were too sick to travel to the capital to receive their son's body, said Bina Sultana, aunt of the deceased.
His relatives and family members received the body at the airport. He will be laid to rest at his village home in Rupsha of Khulna today.
Civil Aviation and Tourism Minister AKM Shahjahan Kamal was present at gate-8 of the airport. He was seen trying to hold back tears as three vehicles carrying coffins were coming out the gate.
(Justnews/ys/0100hr)
