Md Hadisur Rahman, who was killed on March 3 in a rocket attack on a Bangladeshi ship stranded at a Ukrainian port, was laid to rest at his family graveyard in Kadamtala village of Barguna on Tuesday morning.
His namaz-e-janaza was held at 10am. A doa mahfil was also arranged after the burial that was attended by hundreds of people in the village in Betagi upazila.
Villagers thronged the yard of his house to get a last glimpse of Hadisur after the freezer van carrying his body reached his home around 10pm on Monday. His family members broke down as they saw the body after 12 days of getting the news of his death.
A Turkish Airlines flight carrying Hadisur’s body landed at Dhaka's Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport around 12.30pm on Monday and after all the formalities were done, a freezer left with the same for Barguna around 2pm on Monday.
On March 3, Hadisur, a third engineer of Bangladeshi vessel ‘Banglar Samriddhi’, was killed in a rocket attack on the ship stranded at Ukrainian port Olvia.