Jhenaidah, Oct. 25 -- The body of Bangladeshi national Sohel Rana, who died in Latvia after allegedly being tortured by human traffickers, returned home on Sunday.

The remains of Sohel, 45, son of Abul Hashem, reached his home at Ramchandrapur village in Sadar upazila around 3:00pm, triggering an outpouring of grief among family members and relatives.

Hundreds of villagers gathered at his home to pay their last respects.

According to his father-in-law, Alfaz Uddin, Sohel was rescued by Latvian police from a forest near the Latvia-Belarus border on October 7 after being subjected to inhuman torture by a human trafficking gang that had promised to send him to Italy.

He died the following day while undergoing treatment at a hospital in L...