Plane crash survivor Shahreen returns to Dhaka

MNA National Desk: One of the 10 Bangladeshis, Shahreen Ahmed who survived the US-Bangla plane crash in Nepal returned to Dhaka while another flew to Singapore with his family for further treatment.

Doctors in Nepal have discharged six of them, two are still in intensive care and one is being treated at the burn unit, according to the foreign ministry.

Another patient is waiting to be discharged to fly to New Delhi for treatment.

Md Rezwanul Haque, who was admitted to the OM Hospital in Kathmandu, was taken to Singapore on Wednesday.

His father Mozammel Haque arranged the transfer, said US-Bangla Airline General Manager Kamrul Islam.

Shahreen Ahmed returned to Bangladesh on Thursday with her brother Lt Col Sarfaraz Ahmed. She took treatment at the Kathmandu Medical College Hospital.

Mehedi Hasan, Saiyada Kamrunnahar Swarna and Almun Nahar Annie have been discharged by the hospital.

They will soon be sent to Bangladesh, said Mashfi Binte Shams, Bangladesh ambassador to Nepal.

Al Alimul Islam Imam, head of chancery at Bangladesh Embassy in Nepal, said Eakub Ali would be received by his brother Dipu Byapari at Norvic Hospital.

Imrana Kabir Hashi will be taken to Delhi by her family from Kathmandu Medical College Hospital, Imam told media.

Eakub has been discharged already while the formalities are on for Hashi, he said.

Among the remaining three Bangladeshis, Sheikh Rashed Rubayat and Md Kabir Hossain are admitted to the ICU in Kathmandu Medical College Hospital while Md Shahin Bepari is under treatment at the burn unit of the hospital.

An aircraft operated by the US-Bangla Airlines crashed with 71 people on board in Kathmandu on Monday killing 49, including 26 Bangladeshis.

As ordered by the prime minister, a seven-member team led by Dr Lutfur Quadir Lelin, associate professor at Dhaka Medical College Hospital, is flying to Nepal to treat the victims, in particular those with burns.

Two members of the police’s Crime Investigation Unit are flying along to help Nepal authorities to speed up DNA tests to identify those who died of burns.

Nepal is categorising the bodies based on nationalities, foreign ministry officials have said. But those who died from severe burns are yet to be identified.