Dhaka, Sept. 17 -- The remains of two Bangladeshi workers who died in separate fires in Russia have been brought home.

The bodies arrived at Dhaka's Shahjalal International Airport aboard Turkish Airlines flight TK-0172 at 5:18am on Thursday.

Shariful Islam, deputy director of the Expatriate Welfare Desk at Shahjalal International Airport, confirmed the matter to bdnews24.com.

The two workers have been identified as Md Mominul Islam of Roumari Upazila in Kurigram and Md Shafiqul Islam of Pangsha Upazila in Rajbari.

The first secretary (labour) at the Bangladesh Embassy in Moscow said in a message that Mominul died from burns sustained in a blast during gas pipeline testing at the Amur Gas Chemical Complex, where LLC Sinopec Engineerin...