Body of Shahed killed at Riyadh airport by Houthi attack reaches home

The body of Bangladeshi worker Md Shahed Ahmed, who was killed in an attack on King Khalid International Airport in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, has been brought back to Bangladesh.

The aircraft carrying his body arrived at Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport in Dhaka on Friday morning (October 23).

According to sources concerned, Shahed’s body was sent to Dhaka on a US-Bangla Airlines flight from King Abdulaziz International Airport in Jeddah at 11:10pm local time on Thursday (October 22). The flight landed in Dhaka at 8:35am on Friday.

Shahed was killed in an attack on King Khalid International Airport in Riyadh on October 10. He hailed from Shajahanpur upazila of Bogura district and was the son of Rafiqul Islam. He lost his life in the attack while working in Saudi Arabia.

Two Bangladeshis were reportedly among the 12 people killed in a Houthi missile attack on the airport in the Saudi capital. Shahed was one of them. Authorities are also looking into details concerning the other Bangladeshi killed in the incident.

Meanwhile, State Minister for Foreign Affairs Shama Obaed Islam said the bodies of 11 Bangladeshis killed in various conflicts across the Middle East over the past six months had been brought back to the country.

Arrangements are underway to repatriate the remains of others as well. Initiatives have also been taken to hand over Shahed’s body to his family and provide government assistance to them.