, May 8 -- Nahida Sultana Bristy, one of the two Bangladeshi doctoral students at the University of South Florida who were murdered in the United States, has begun her final journey for home in coffin.

An Emirates flight carrying her mortal remains departed from Orlando International Airport in Florida at 8:50pm local time on Thursday.

The flight will transit through Dubai. From there, flight EK 0582 is scheduled to land at Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport in Dhaka at 8:40am on Saturday.

A representative of the Bangladesh Consulate in Miami was present at Orlando Airport and oversaw the repatriation process, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs said on Thursday night.

Since April 16, two days after the disappearance of Bristy and ano...