Bangladeshi Worker Dies in UAE After Drone Interception Incident
Another Bangladeshi national has been killed after shrapnel from a drone interception fell on a farm in the Al Rifaa area of the United Arab Emirates, according to Emirates News Agency (WAM).
Authorities are currently responding to the incident, Al Jazeera reported on Wednesday.
Earlier, two Bangladeshi nationals were killed and seven others injured in separate missile and drone attacks across different parts of the Middle East.
In the United Arab Emirates, Saleh Ahmed, a Bangladeshi worker from Baralekha in Sylhet, was killed in Ajman on March 1 after being struck by debris from an aerial attack targeting a civilian facility.
On March 8, a missile strike in central Saudi Arabia killed two people one Bangladeshi and one Indian and injured 12 others, according to the country’s civil defence authority.
Meanwhile, in Kuwait, four Bangladeshi nationals were injured in a drone attack near a civilian airport. The injured individuals were identified as Aminul Islam from Nabinagar in Brahmanbaria, Rabiul Islam from Sathia in Pabna, Masudur Rahman from Begumganj in Noakhali, and Dulal Miah from Chandina in Cumilla.
