Dhaka, March 20 -- The body of a Bangladeshi man killed in a missile strike in Saudi Arabia has been brought home, 12 days after the attack amid the ongoing war in the Middle East.

The remains of Mosharraf Hossain arrived at Dhaka's Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport on a Saudia Airlines flight on Friday morning.

Mosharraf, son of Surjat Ali from Kirtankhola village in Tangail's Sakhipur Upazila, had been living in Saudi Arabia for the past eight years.

He was one of two Bangladeshis killed when a projectile hit a residential area in Al-Kharj on Mar 8 during an Iranian retaliatory missile attack, according to officials.

Expatriates' Welfare Minister Ariful Haque Choudhury, Liberation War Affairs Minister Ahmed Azam Khan and State ...