Dhaka, May 14 -- Karim Mia left his village in Narsingdi's Shibpur 12 years ago, hoping labour abroad would lift his family out of hardship. Instead, war reached the place where he had built a fragile life -- and, according to his family, ended it.

The middle-aged Bangladeshi worker, employed at a grocery shop in Lebanon, is believed to have been killed late Monday night when an Israeli drone struck his residence in Nabatieh's Mayfadoun in southern Lebanon.

His death has not been officially confirmed, as his body has not yet been identified.

The Bangladesh Embassy in Beirut said in a statement on Tuesday that it had learned through different sources of the deaths of two Bangladeshis, including Karim and another migrant worker from Satk...