Bogura, Oct. 12 -- Kakoli Begum was expecting her husband, Shahed Ahmed Ashik, to call again after reaching Jeddah. Instead, she waited for a call that never came.

Shahed, 35, a Bangladeshi expatriate from Bogura, was killed in a missile attack at King Khalid International Airport in Riyadh, the capital of Saudi Arabia, leaving behind his wife, two young children and a grieving family.

His nine-year-old and four-year-old children have lost their father, while Kakoli faces an uncertain future without the family's main breadwinner.

Shahed was the son of Rafiqul Islam alias Mithu, of Malipara village in Madla Union under Shajahanpur upazila of Bogura.

He had been working in Saudi Arabia for three years. On September 7, he returned home o...