Two Bangladeshis from Gazipur were found dead in a flat in Dammam, Saudi Arabia, on Wednesday.

After this incident the deceased family accused a Bangladeshi agent of involvement in the killings.

The deceased are Kamruzzaman Kakon (26) and Kamrul Islam Sagar (22), sons of Md Mosharraf Hossain Lombori from Uttar Bhurulia Adarsha Para area of Gazipur city. Their deaths have cast a pall of grief over the local community.

According to family sources, last year, Bahar Uddin, a local agent and director of Noyapaltan-based Samia International, took Tk 21 lakh in total from Mosharraf Hossain promising to send Kakon to Canada and Sagar to Saudi Arabia.

Initially, Bahar took Tk 3 lakh to send Kakon abroad, but no steps were taken for his migration. Later, he proposed sending Sagar to Saudi Arabia for Tk 4.3 lakh with promises of a good job. Sagar went to Saudi in October 2023 but was allegedly confined in a room and forced to do food delivery work, not the promised job.

When the family demanded a refund for Kakon’s Canada visa, Bahar offered to send him to Saudi Arabia instead for Tk 5.3 lakh, which was paid. Kakon joined his brother in Dammam in December 2023, but both were kept in poor conditions with little food and low-paying delivery jobs.

In December, Bahar reportedly invited Mosharraf to Saudi on an Umrah visa to see his sons. Upon return, Bahar gave him a bag to carry to Dhaka. Saudi immigration officers seized the bag, and Bahar later claimed it contained Tk 13 lakh worth of gold and demanded compensation, threatening harm to Mosharraf’s sons.

On May 9, Bahar allegedly sent men in a microbus to look for Mosharraf in Gazipur and abducted his elderly father Abul Kashem when they didn’t find him. Police later rescued him. Fearing for his sons’ safety, Mosharraf had already filed a general diary (GD) with Gazipur Metropolitan Police.

Mosharraf said he was informed by another Bangladeshi in Saudi on Wednesday night that both sons had been murdered. The Bangladesh Embassy in Saudi Arabia later confirmed the deaths. Their bodies were recovered from a flat in Dammam.

Efforts to reach Bahar Uddin for comments were unsuccessful.

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