A Bangladeshi expatriate was killed in an Israeli airstrike while he was on his way to work in Lebanon Saturday afternoon.
The deceased is Mohammad Nizam Uddin, 31, son of late Mohammad Abdul Quddus of Khaira under Kasba Upazila in Brahmanbaria.
The Bangladesh Embassy in Lebanon on Sunday confirmed the death and said that the casualty took place in the Grazmiye area of Beirut minutes before 3:30pm local time.
Nizam was staying in a coffee shop when the Israeli force attacked. This is the first reported death of a Bangladeshi in an Israeli airstrike in Lebanon.
According to the media reports, at least 2,897 people have been killed and 13,150 wounded in Lebanon by Israeli attacks since October last year.
At least 2,000 people,聽 including dozens of children, were killed since Israel intensified bombing in Lebanon on September 23.
Since intensified airstrikes by Israel in Lebanon, Bangladesh, like many other nations, started repatriating its nationals from the war-torn country. Around one lakh Bangladeshis work in the West Asian country. 聽
A total of 268 stranded Bangladeshis in Lebanon were so far repatriated at government expense.
Officials said that a list of around 2,000 Bangladeshis had been prepared for repatriation in the first phase.
The Bangladesh ambassador to Lebanon, Air Vice-Marshal Javed Tanveer Khan, expressed grief over the death of the remittance fighter and extended condolences to the bereaved family.
As the news reached Nizam鈥檚 family in Brahmanbaria, the family members and his relatives broke into tears.
抖阴精品 correspondent in Brahmanbaria reported that Nizam was the youngest of his five siblings who lost their father when Niman was only six.
Sayera Khatun, elder sister of Nizam, said that his brother went to Lebanon legally in 2012 but became undocumented as he couldn鈥檛 renew his papers.
As he was undocumented, Niman could not come home in over a decade, she said.
Stranded migrants said that several hundred Bangladeshis became injured in Israeli attacks in Lebanon and several others remained missing.
According to Bangladesh鈥檚 Bureau of Manpower, Employment and Training statistics, at least 2,67,364 Bangladeshis migrated to the country since 2002. Of them, 61,786 migrated since 2015.
