“Three of the 26 Bangladeshis, who have been killed, are yet to be identified,” First Secretary (Consular) Ashit Baran Sarker told bdnews24.com on Sunday. “Preparations are under way to transport 23 bodies, which will be sent on Monday,” Prof Mahmud, the head of Dhaka Medical College’s Forensic Department, told bdnews24.com. The 23 bodies include those of pilot Abid Sultan, co-pilot Prithula Rashid and crew members, Khwaja Hossain Mohammad Shafey and Sharmeen Akter Nabila. Earlier in the day, ISPR Assistant Director Muhammad Reza-Ul Karim Shammee said that the plane will land at the Bangabandu Air Base in Dhaka’s Kurmitola. Ijaj Ahmed Milon, whose friend Faruk Hossain Priok died in the crash, told bdnews24.com then, “We have been told to be at the air force base in Kurmitola in the afternoon.

Source: bd News24 March 18, 2018 11:15 UTC