Three Bangladeshi workers, who died in a fire in Bahrain’s capital Manama on February 28, were laid to eternal rest at their native villages under Burichang upazila in Comilla yesterday.
They were buried following namaz-e-janazas after Johr prayers.
Earlier, the bodies arrived at Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport by a flight of Emirates Airlines on Saturday evening. Later, the bodies were handed over to the families around 10pm.
On February 28, three Bangladeshi nationals died and two others received minor injuries in the fire that took place in a two-storey residential building in the Mukha Rekha area of Manama.
The deceased were Dulal Mia, 30, son of Siddiqur Rahman from Mainamati union’s Ziapur village in Burichang upazila, Jalal Uddin, 30, son of Abdul Gafur from Rampur village of Varel union under the same upazila and Mosharraf Hossain, 32, son of Nazim Mia from the same village.
After seeing the bodies, family members and relatives of the deceased started wailing, which created an atmosphere of gloom at the two villages.
Losing the earning members of the families, they said they did not know how they would pay back creditors for loans taken out to send the men to Bahrain.
