Bangladesh
Sailor Hadisur Rahman Hadisur's body to arrive in Dhaka tomorrow
Own Correspondent, Dhaka, March 12: The body of Md. Hadisur Rahman, the third engineer of 'MV Banglar Samriddhi' cargo ship who was killed in a rocket attack on the Ukrainian port of Olvia, will arrive in Dhaka on Sunday.
Hadisur's body arrived in the Romanian capital Bucharest around 12 am on Friday, said Md. Sakhawat Hossain, general secretary of the Bangladesh Merchant Marine Officers Association (BMMOA).
He said Hadisur's body will arrive in Dhaka on Sunday (March 12) at 8 pm on a Turkish Air flight. Meanwhile, Hadisur's body entered Romania via Moldova at 7.30 pm on Friday. Romanian consulate officials received his body.
Engineer Sakhawat Hossain said the freezer van carrying the body left for Moldova at 11:30 am Bangladesh time on Friday, and it arrived in Moldova around 7 pm.
He said the transfer of Hadisur's body from Ukraine to Romania had been delayed due to the war in Ukraine and the absence of officials. The body had been scheduled to leave for Romania on Thursday morning. But, it was delayed at the last minute by the Romanian authorities seeking the consent of Hadisur's family. Consent letter was sent by email from Bangladesh. After completing all the formalities, the body left for Moldova at 11 am on Friday.
MV Banglar Samriddhi, a cargo ship owned by BSC was being leased under the Danish company Delta Corporation. The ship sailed from Mumbai via Turkey to the Ukrainian port of Olvia on February 22. After loading cement clay from Olvia, the ship was scheduled to leave the Ukrainian port for the Italian port of Ravenna on February 24.
The ship with 29 crew members on board had got stuck at the port after Russia launched full-scale invasion of Ukraine. Hadisur Rahman, the ship's third engineer, was killed in a rocket attack on March 2.
The 28 surviving sailors of the ship and the body of Hadisur were rescued later in collaboration with an international voluntary organization. On Saturday (March 5). They had crossed the Ukraine border on Sunday afternoon and reached Romania via Moldova.
Later on Wednesday, they arrived at Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport in Dhaka by a Turkish Air flight.
