Dhaka, May 9 -- The remains of Nahida Sultana Bristy, a PhD student at the University of South Florida (USF) who was brutally murdered in the United States, have arrived in Bangladesh.

An Emirates Airlines flight carrying her coffin from Dubai touched down at Dhaka's Shahjalal International Airport at 9:10am on Saturday.

Her parents, maternal uncle, and other family members were present at the airport to receive the body.

Her maternal grandfather Abdul Ali said the remains would be taken to their village home in Madaripur immediately.

He added that the Namaz-e-Janaza, or funeral prayer, would be held after Asr, followed by her burial in the family graveyard next to her grandparents.

The coffin was dispatched from Orlando Internationa...