Bodies of six Bangladeshi migrant workers who were killed in a fire in Riyadh, the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, have arrived in Dhaka on Friday afternoon.
A Biman Bangladesh Airlines flight carrying the bodies of Matiur Rahman, Mohammad Jalal, Md Selim, Shah Alam, Khorshed and Zakir Hossain landed at Shahjalal International Airport at 3:15pm.
Expatriates' Welfare Secretary Khandaker Shawkat Hossain handed over the bodies to their families.
Each of the families have been given a cheque of Tk35,000 for transport and burial cost.
The fire, which took place on May 12 in a furniture shop named Titas Furniture, killed a total of nine Bangladeshi migrant workers.
It is to be noted that the government also allocates Tk3 lakh for the family of a migrant worker who dies abroad.