, Oct. 23 -- Around 7,500 Bangladeshis are currently imprisoned in different parts of Saudi Arabia, State Minister for Foreign Affairs Shama Obaed Islam said on Friday.

"More or less 7,500 Bangladeshis are in different jails in Saudi Arabia on various charges. We are checking whether the names of the two Bangladeshis who were executed recently are on the list," she told the media.

The state minister was speaking after the body of Bangladeshi worker Md Shahed Ahmed Ashik, who was killed in a Houthi missile attack on King Khalid International Airport in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, was handed over to his family at Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport in Dhaka.

"We have not received detailed information about the executions. We have officially...