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3 Nov 2024

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By The Business Standard (Bangladesh)

Bangladeshi worker killed in Israeli strike on Lebanon

A Bangladeshi migrant worker was killed in an Israeli air strike in war-torn Lebanon's capital Beirut on 2 November.

The deceased, Mohammad Nizam Uddin, 31, was from Brahmanbaria's Kasba upazila.

He is the first Bangladeshi to be killed in an air strike in Lebanon.

Nizam Uddin went to Lebanon some 12 years ago as a migrant worker but didn't get the job he was supposed to when he reached the country.

He had already borrowed Tk7 lakh to go to Lebanon.

Struggling to find a stable source of income, Nizam opted to do any job he could get his hands on, which effectively turned him into an illegal migrant worker in the war-torn country.

The 31-year-old man, the youngest son of the family, was killed during an Israeli air strike at a coffee shop in Lebanon's capital, Beirut, on Saturday.

The release from the Bangladesh Embassy in Beirut says Nizam was on his way to work when the air strike took his life.

Family members, however, say the cafe where he died was his workplace….

The family, still processing the grief of losing its youngest son, only wants his body back now. "…

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