Chattogram, Oct. 19 -- The bodies of eight Bangladeshi nationals, including seven expatriates from Sandwip upazila who were killed in a tragic road accident in Oman, arrived in Chattogram on Saturday night.

Biman Bangladesh Airlines flight BG-122, carrying the bodies from Muscat, landed at Shah Amanat International Airport at 8:50 p.m.

District administration officials, on behalf of the government, handed over the bodies to the grieving families.

Engineer Md. Ibrahim Khalil, public relations officer at the airport, said that all eight bodies arrived on the same flight and will be transported to Sandwip on Sunday morning.

According to officials, the accident occurred on October 8 around 4:00 p.m. (Bangladesh time) in the Dukhum Sidda a...