A Madaripur court sent a suspected human trafficker to jail being accused in five cases filed over the trafficking and killing of 26 Bangladeshis in Libya.
Rajoir police station showed one Julhas Sardar arrested on Tuesday and produced him before a judge, who then sentenced him to jail, confirmed Rajoir police station OC Shawkat Jahan.
Julhas had been undergoing treatment at the isolation unit of Madaripur Sadar Hospital under police custody. He was released on Tuesday after his samples came back as negative for Covid-19 in two consecutive tests.
Thirty migrant workers, including 26 Bangladeshi nationals—twelve of whom were from Madaripur—were killed in Libya by human traffickers on May 28.
The killing took place at a smuggling warehouse in desert town Mizda, near the city of Gharyan, southwest of Tripoli of Libya. Eleven more Bangladeshis were also injured in the attack.
