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.

The body of engineer Md Hadisur Rahman, who was killed in a rocket attack on the Bangladesh Shipping Corporation (BSC) vessel stranded at a Ukraine port, is expected to reach Dhaka on March 13 or 14, said State Minister for Foreign Affairs Md Shahriar Alam on Friday. Shahriar said, "Hadisur’s body has arrived in Moldova from Ukraine. We hope it will reach Bucharest, the capital of Romania by morning.” Read: Crew of 'Banglar Samriddhi' returns home After some official procedure there, the body will be sent to Bangladesh, he added. Earlier on Wednesday, the 28 surviving crew members of Bangladeshi ship 'Banglar Samriddhi', who were stranded in war-torn Ukraine, arrived in Dhaka. They went from Ukraine to Moldova to reach Bucharest, from where they flew to Dhaka. The Bangladesh Shipping Corporation (BSC) ship had been stranded at Olvia port in Ukraine since February 23, following Russia's invasion of its eastern European neighbour. Hadisur, third engineer of the ship, was killed in a rocket attack on the vessel on March 3. The ship had since then been declared abandoned. Read:Hadisur’s body kept in Ukraine, 5 youths still in detention centre: FM Hadisur’s body was preserved in a bunker near Ukraine. The procedure to bring back Hadisur’s body was being delayed due to the worsening situation in Ukraine.

A crew member was killed in a rocket attack on a Bangladesh Shipping Corporation (BSC) vessel stranded at a Ukrainian port Wednesday. "The deceased is Md Hadisur Rahman, 47, third engineer of Banglar Samriddhi," said Captain Md Anam Chowdhury, president of the Bangladesh Merchant Marine Officers' Association. Also, talking to UNB, Bangladesh Ambassador to Poland Sultana Laila Hossain confirmed the death of the third engineer of the ship. "The ship caught fire at 9:25pm (Bangladesh time, 5.25pm in Ukraine) as a rocket struck its bridge. The crew members were able to tame the flames immediately. Hadisur Rahman was killed as the ship came under attack; everyone else is okay," Anam Chowdhury said. Amid the worrying development in Ukraine, the bulk carrier Banglar Samriddhi got stuck at the Port of Olvia, located in the Mykolaiv region on the left bank of the Dnipro-Bug estuary on the northern Black Sea coast. All 29 crew on-board are Bangladeshis. Ukrainian authorities reported fighting near Mykolaiv, Odesa, and other areas. READ: As Russia batters Ukraine, both sides ready for more talks Banglar Samriddhi had been anchored at the port before the Russian invasion began on February 24, Omar Faruque Tuhin, a crew member of the ship, told UNB over the phone on February 27. "All activities at the port came to a screeching halt immediately and we got stuck on the ship. Panic has gripped us. We hear the sound of explosions and gunfire in the distance. Fortunately, the port has not yet come under direct attack," said Omar. "However, it is dangerous for our ship to move around as there can be planted mines in the sea," he added. Banglar Samriddhi, now caught in the fighting in Ukraine, reached Olvia on February 22 to load ball clay, according to the BSC. As the conflict between Ukraine and Russia escalated, the BSC cancelled the plan and asked the master of the vessel to make his way towards international waters. However, the bulk carrier failed to leave the port immediately due to a delay in getting port clearance and got stranded as Ukraine closed its seaports following the Russian invasion. Russian forces had blocked the cities of Kherson on the Black Sea and the port of Berdyansk on the Azov Sea, Russian Defense Ministry spokesman Major General Igor Konashenkov said. READ: Russia-Ukraine conflict: BGMEA sees challenges for trade The pressure on strategic ports in the south of Ukraine appeared aimed at seizing control of the country's coastline stretching from the border with Romania in the west to the border with Russia in the east. Cutting Ukraine's access to its seaports would deal a major blow to the country's economy.

A barrage of rockets hit a base housing U.S. and other coalition troops north of Baghdad on Saturday, Iraqi security officials said, just days after a similar attack killed three servicemen, including two Americans.

A barrage of rockets hit a base housing U.S. and other coalition troops north of Baghdad, Iraqi security officials said Saturday, just days after a similar attack killed three servicemen, including two Americans.

A nighttime rocket attack on the U.S. Embassy in Baghdad injured at least one embassy personnel member, staffers there said Monday.

The Israeli military said it struck dozens of Iranian targets in Syria in Wednesday, carrying out a "wide-scale" strike in response to rocket fire on the Israeli-controlled Golan Heights the day before.

Two rockets were fired into Baghdad's fortified Green Zone on Wednesday, killing one Iraqi soldier and adding to the violence gripping the country amid unprecedented anti-government protests and a violent security crackdown.