Three more US-Bangla plane crash survivors on way back to Dhaka

Three Bangladeshis who survived the US-Bangla plane crash in Nepal are returning to Dhaka on Friday, Bangladesh Embassy's First Secretary Asit Baran Sarker has said.

Mehedi Hasan, his wife Sayeeda Kamrunnahar Swarna and sister-in-law Almun Nahar Annie will take a flight to Dhaka in the afternoon, he said.

Petrified to take a flight again, the three wanted to travel by road but doctors prohibited them, citing their health conditions.

Mehedi, Swarna and Annie are due to land in Dhaka on a Biman Bangladesh flight at 2:45pm, US-Bangla Airlines spokesman Kamrul Islam said.

They will be taken to the United Hospital from the Dhaka airport. The three received treatment at Kathmandu Medical College Hospital.

Mehedi is a businessman who hails from Gazipur’s Sreenagar. He was travelling to Nepal with his wife, cousin Faruq Hossain Priyok and his family.

Priyok, a photographer, and his daughter Priyonmoyi Tamara died in Bangladesh’s worst aviation disaster.

The plane crashed at Kathmandu’s Tribhuban International Airport on Monday and caught fire with 71 people on board.

The death toll stands at 49, including 26 Bangladeshis. There were four crew members among the Bangladeshis.

Another victim Shahreen Ahmed was brought to Dhaka on Thursday and admitted to the burn unit of Dhaka Medical College Hospital. The school teacher was better than before, according to DMCH burn unit.

Another survivor Rizwanul Hoque was taken to Singapore from Kathmandu’s OM Hospital on Wednesday.

A total of 10 Bangladeshis survived the crash.

Among them, Eakub Ali has been discharged by Norvic Hospital in Nepal. His brother Dipu Bepari wants to take him to Delhi, according to Bangladesh embassy in Nepal.

Imrana Kabir Hashi, a teacher at Rajshahi University of Science and Technology, was still in hospital care in Kathmandu.

Among the rest three, Sheikh Rashed Rubaiyat and Kabir Hossain are under intensive care and Md Shahin Bepari is admitted at the burn unit of the hospital.