ABU DHABI: Bangladeshi migrant Ahmad Ali, 55, was doing his regular round delivering drinking water to residents in the United Arab Emirates when Iran launched its first retaliatory attacks against Gulf countries. Debris from a missile strike tore through his delivery van, killing him instantly and ending his three decades spent in the Emirates. “My dad told my cousin he would be back soon,” Ali’s son Abdul Hoque said from Barlekha in eastern Bangladesh. “But those were his last words.

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ABU DHABI: Bangladeshi migrant Ahmad Ali, 55, was doing his regular round delivering drinking water to residents in the United Arab Emirates when Iran launched its first…