The Israeli attack on Monday in Tehran, the capital of Iran, also targeted the residences of officials working at the Bangladesh embassy there.
It is reported that at least one of the officials’ houses was extensively damaged.
However, the official survived as he was not at home at the time of the attack.
“My house was completely destroyed,” Oalid Islam, first secretary of the Bangladesh Embassy in Iran, told BBC Bangla.
Bangladesh embassy officials in Tehran mainly live in an area called Jordan, which is in Tehran’s District 3.
The area is home to several important structures, including the Iranian state television building, which Israel announced on Monday to attack.
Residents were asked to evacuate before the attack.
Although the loss of life was somewhat less, numerous structures were damaged.
“There is nothing left around us now. Only a few houses of diplomats are left, but there is nothing around,” Oalid said.
After Israeli forces announced an attack on Tehran’s District 3 on Monday afternoon, Dhaka ordered all Bangladeshi citizens, including officials and employees working at the Bangladesh mission there, to leave the area.
The employees then left the Bangladesh embassy complex in Tehran. Although they are currently staying in other areas of Tehran.
But as the scope of the Israeli attack is increasing, the Foreign Ministry is now planning to evacuate citizens outside Tehran.
“We are concerned about those who are in Tehran. They are at risk of being affected by the attack. We are now working for them and those working in our embassy so that they can be safe,” Acting Foreign Secretary Ruhul Alam Siddique told a press conference in Dhaka on Tuesday afternoon.
The foreign ministry said that all of the 400 or so Bangladeshis currently staying in Tehran are unharmed.
The conflict began on Friday when Israel launched predawn strikes that hit more than 100 targets, including nuclear facilities and missile sites, and killed senior military commanders and scientists.
That attack set off an escalating series of tit-for-tat exchanges, raising fears of a wider, more dangerous regional war.
Residential areas in both countries have suffered deadly strikes since the hostilities broke out.
As of Tuesday, Iran’s health ministry said 224 people had been killed and 1,277 injured; while official Israeli sources said 23 civilians had been killed and nearly 60 injured.
