Deaths of 13 Bangladeshis in Fire
Bahrain to take legal action
The Bahrain government will take legal action against the people responsible for fire in a building where 13 Bangladeshi workers were killed on January 11.
Chair of Bangladesh-Bahrain Parliamentary Friendship Group Mahmoud Youssef Almahmoud, also member of council of representatives of Bahrain parliament assured Foreign Minister Dipu Moni of this yesterday.
He along with two other Bahrain lawmakers who came to Bangladesh on January 15 called on the foreign minister at the latter's office.
“The people responsible for the accident would be brought to the justice and the government of Bahrain is taking all measures for repatriation of the bodies of the workers including compensation to the family members of the victims,†said Mahmoud Youssef.
Dipu Moni mentioned that about one lakh Bangladeshis are working in Bahrain and they are law abiding and hard working.
She requested the lawmakers to impress upon Bahrain government to recruit more skilled and semi-skilled manpower including doctors, engineers and nurses from Bangladesh.
Meanwhile, five lawmakers in Bahrain placed a proposal to the government for the adoption of annual inspections of all labour accommodations to ensure they meet scrupulous health and safety standards.
The MPs urged the government not to declare any labour accommodation fit without the licence delivered by the labour, health, municipality ministries and the civil defence, reported Gulfnews yesterday.
The bodies of 13 workers will leave Bahrain today and reach Dhaka tomorrow, said the Bangladesh foreign ministry.
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