Bangladeshi killed in air strike in Lebanon: govt

Dhaka: A Bangladeshi worker died in an air strike in Lebanon, Dhaka s foreign ministry said Sunday, as the Israeli bombardment hampered efforts to rep...

Dhaka: A Bangladeshi worker died in an air strike in Lebanon, Dhaka's foreign ministry said Sunday, as the Israeli bombardment hampered efforts to repatriate citizens.

The foreign ministry estimates that between 70,000 and 100,000 of its nationals are working in Lebanon, many as labourers or domestic workers.

The first flights, organised by Dhaka's government with the UN's International Organisation for Migration, brought home scores of Bangladeshis from Beirut last month.

Mohammad Nizam, 31, was killed on Saturday afternoon in a reported strike as he stopped at a coffee shop on the way to work in Beirut, Bangladesh's ambassador to Lebanon, Javed Tanveer Khan said in a statement.

Mohmmad Jalaluddin said his younger brother Nizam had lived in Beirut for more than a decade, and had not been among the estimated 1,800 Bangladeshis who had registered for an evacuation flight home.