Foreign Minister Dr AK Abdul Momen has said the body of engineer Md Hadisur Rahman has been preserved in Ukraine and efforts are underway to bring back the body home. “The body has been kept in a safe place in Ukraine,” he told reporters at a media briefing at state guesthouse Padma on Sunday, adding that it might take time to bring it to Bangladesh.   The Foreign Minister also said 28 crew members of Bangladeshi ship "Banglar Samriddhi" are now in Bucharest, Romania. “They stayed at a hotel there last night.” Md Hadisur Rahman, 47, third engineer of Banglar Samriddhi, was killed in a rocket attack on the Bangladesh Shipping Corporation (BSC) vessel stranded at a Ukraine port. The 28 other crew members of the ship had safely reached Romania from war-ravaged Ukraine and they will soon return home. Expressing deep condolences to the near and dear ones of deceased Hadisur Rahman, the Russian Embassy in Dhaka on Thursday said the Russian side "bends every effort" to ensure safe departure of the Bangladeshi ship from the port. The Command of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation, relying on the objective monitoring data, has repeatedly stated that, during the retreat, the Ukrainian nationalists open indiscriminate fire and deliberately capture hostages, use them as a “human shield”, resorting to the well-known terrorists’ tactic, said the Embassy. The BSC ship was positioned in the inner anchorage of Olvia port (Ukraine), when Hadisur was killed due to a missile attack. "The circumstances of the incident are being established," said the embassy. Read:Efforts on to ensure safe departure of Bangladeshi ship from Ukrainian port: Russian Embassy

Foreign Secretary Masud Bin Momen on Friday said efforts are underway to bring 28 crew of Bangladeshi ship "Banglar Samriddhi" to Romania from war-ravaged Ukraine. Talking to reporters at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, he also said around 600 Bangladeshis have so far reached Poland from bordering Ukraine fleeing the strife. Read:Bangladeshi crew in Ukraine: Govt trying to evacuate them to Poland, says Shahriar In a video message earlier on Thursday, State Minister for Foreign Affairs Md Shahriar Alam said the Bangladeshi crew members had already been taken to a relatively safe place from the ship that came under attack leaving its third engineer dead on Wednesday. The ship had also been declared abandoned. The government initially tried to move the crew members to Warsaw, Poland. The sailors are also carrying with them the body of deceased Hadisur Rahman, a 47-year-old Bangladesh national. The state minister said the government, in consultation with the Shipping Ministry, will bring back the 28 sailors along with the body of the third engineer if they can safely leave Ukraine. Bangladesh Ambassador to Poland Sultana Laila Hossain talked to the captain of the ship.