Staff Reporter :
The bodies of the rest three Bangladesh nationals, who died in the US-Bangla plane crash in Nepal on March 12, arrived in Dhaka on Thursday.
A Biman Bangladesh Airlines flight carrying the bodies reached Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport at 4:50pm.
Civil Aviation and Tourism Minister AKM Shahjahan Kamal handed over the bodies to the respective families at the airport.
The minister urged the authorities concerned to improve their skills so that an incident like the US-Bangla aircraft crash is not repeated.
The identities of the three remaining Bangladeshi victims were confirmed on Tuesday.
The victims are Nazrul Islam, 62, of Rajshahi, Mollah Alifuzzaman, 30, of Khulna and Pias Roy, 23, of Barisal, according to a top official of US-Bangla Airlines.
The Namaz-e-Janaza of Alifuzzaman was held at the Baitul Mukarram National Mosque in the capital, while the relatives of Nazrul and Pias took their bodies to their respective village homes.
The flight, which was scheduled to reach Dhaka airport at 3:00pm on Thursday was delayed due to bad weather in Kathmandu of Nepal, Md Salim, Station Manager of Biman Bangladesh Airlines in Kathmandu, said.
The crash of US-Bangla flight BS211 at Tribhuvan International Airport in Kathmandu on March 12 killed 51 people, 26 of them were Bangladeshis.
On Monday, bodies of 23 victims were brought back to Bangladesh. On that day, the nation paid tributes to the victims of the tragic plane crash.
At least 20 people survived in the crash, 10 of them are Bangladeshis.
