A coffin carrying the body of Bangladeshi expatriate Afshar Mia, 40, who recently died in Greece, has finally reached his family in Sunamganj's Shantiganj upazila.
The body was handed over to his relatives from the expatriate welfare desk of Dhaka airport on Monday evening.
The family members burst into tears when the body reached home early Tuesday.
Later, he was buried at the local graveyard adjacent to Damodhortopi mosque after a namaj-e-janaza around 10am.
Md Khaled Chowdhury, officer-in-charge of Shantiganj police station, confirmed the matter.
A coffin swap due to a sticker mishap created a sensation in the area recently.
Expatriate Afshar Mia passed away on February 28 from liver cancer in Greece.
The deceased's brother, Erman Mia, completed the paperwork to bring his brother's body back to Bangladesh.
A dead body arrived at Shantiganj upazila in Sunamganj on Friday. The overwhelmed relatives burst into tears after receiving the body.
The schedule of namaz-e-janaza was announced in the neighbourhood mosques and all over the area. The house was filled with grieving guests. A grave was dug for burial. But in the end, the funeral prayer was not completed and neither was the burial done.
The incident happened because another person's body was found in Afshar Mia's coffin.
According to the police and Afshar Mia's family, the body that arrived at Afshar Mia's house at 3:18pm on Friday belonged to a person named Jalal Mia, 52, hailing from Shilonpur village of Tongibari upazila of Munshiganj.
He was also an expatriate living in Greece. He died of cardiac arrest. His body was supposed to arrive in the country on Monday. But due to mistakenly affixing the sticker with Afshar Mia's name on Jalal Mia's coffin, one's body arrived at another's address with the date changed.
Afshar Mia's body was still in Athens, Greece.
Several members of Jalal Mia's family said that his body was scheduled to arrive in the country on Monday.
Later, the body was handed over to Jalal Mia's family after completing the legal process.
