
Foreign ministry officials said that 28 crew members reached Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport in the capital but it would take time to return the body of the ship’s third engineer Hadisur Rahman who was killed in a missile attack on the ship on March 2.
The state-owned ship which is currently rented out to a shipping company of Denmark came under Russian missile attack as it anchored at the port of Olvia in war-ravaged Ukraine.
The ship could not leave the port following the Russian invasion of Ukraine that began on February 24 while the ship’s captain abandoned the vessel after it came under the attack.
Hadisur’s brother Golam Mawla Prince had been crying and repeatedly asking the reporters about the body of his brother.
His parents and another brother who came to the airport to receive the body hearing that Hadisur’s body would be brought back with the 28 crew members had been wailing holding his portrait.