DHAKA: When Sharif Sheikh spoke to his Lebanon-based younger brother Karim Miah over the phone in the early hours of Monday, discussing his safety amid Israel’s war on the country was inevitable.
“He said everything was fine with him despite the war situation. But that ‘fine’ didn’t last for him,” Sheikh told Arab News.
It was the last time they spoke.
On Monday afternoon, Miah was killed by Israeli airstrikes in southern Lebanon, which also took the lives of three other Bangladeshi migrant workers.
The 45-year-old had been living and working in a flour mill factory in the Mayfadoun area in Nabatieh for the last 10 years, supporting his wife and two children back home in Bangladesh’s central Narsingdi district.
