The body of Bangladeshi PhD student Jamil Ahmed Limon, who was murdered in the United States, has arrived in Bangladesh.
The Emirates Airlines flight carrying his body landed at Dhaka’s Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport at 8:47am on Monday, according to airport sources.
In a statement on Sunday, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs said Limon’s body was sent to Bangladesh on Saturday evening on a flight departing from Orlando International Airport in Florida.
On April 16, two Bangladeshi PhD students studying at the University of South Florida—Limon and Nahida Sultana Brishti—went missing in the United States. The following day, a friend informed the university authorities.
According to prosecutors, Limon had multiple stab wounds and had been restrained. Using mobile phone location data and vehicle GPS tracking, his body was recovered on April 24, while Brishti’s body was found in a nearby water body on April 26.
A few days after the incident, a SWAT team arrested suspect Hisham Abugharbiyah at his parents’ residence. He has since been denied bail and remains in custody.
Hillsborough County Judge Logan Murphy has ordered that the accused must not contact the victims’ families or any witnesses under any circumstances.
Limon’s namaz-e-janaza was held on April 30 at the Islamic Society of Tampa Bay Area mosque in Tampa, Florida. His classmates, relatives, the Consul General of the Bangladesh Consulate in Miami, media representatives, and members of the Bangladeshi expatriate community attended the prayer.
Meanwhile, regarding the repatriation of Brishti’s body, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs said consent has been obtained from her family. The Pinellas County Medical Examiner has been requested to hand over the body to the same funeral home.
The Bangladesh Embassy in Washington, DC, and the Consulate General in Miami are working jointly to send the body back to Bangladesh as soon as possible.
