Published : 18 Mar 2026, 05:27 PM
Updated : 21 Aug 2026, 03:29 PM
A Bangladeshi man from Mymensingh who was injured in a missile strike in Saudi Arabia has died in hospital, taking the number of Bangladeshis killed in the attack to three amid the ongoing war in the Middle East.
The victim, 35-year-old Abdullah Al Mamun, was from Bhorbhora village in Gafargaon Upazila. His father, Shahid Soudagor, confirmed the death on Thursday morning.
The strike took place shortly before Iftar on Mar 8 at a workers’ camp of Al Towaiq Baldia Company in Al Kharj city, where a missile exploded, killing two Bangladeshi expatriates and injuring several others.
Mamun suffered burns to 72 percent of his body and had been undergoing treatment at Dr Sulaiman Al Habib Hospital in Al Kharj.
His cousin Shawon Morol said doctors declared him dead on Tuesday night while he was on life support.
His body remains at the hospital morgue, he said.
Mamun is survived by a son.
His death has cast a pall of grief over his family back home, with relatives calling for his body to be brought back to Bangladesh as soon as possible.
Earlier, the foreign ministry identified the two other Bangladeshis killed in the Al Kharj attack as Bacchu Mia of Katiadi in Kishoreganj and Mosharraf Hossain of Tangail's Sakhipur.
