Bangladesh: BSC to compensate $5 lakh to Ukraine war victim Hadisur

DHAKA, 26 May 2022, (TON): The Bangladesh Shipping Corporation will pay 5 lakh dollars (about Taka five crore) as compensation to the family of third engineer Hadisur Rahman, who was killed in a missile strike on board a ship at the port of Alvia in Ukraine in March this year.

Besides, his younger brother will get a job at the BSC with effect from June 1 while the other members of the ship 'Banglar Samriddhi' which was damaged by a missile during the war between Ukraine and Russia on March 2 this year will get salaries of seven months.

A release said “this decision was taken at the 312nd meeting of the BSC's Board of Directors, chaired by State Minister for Shipping and Chairman of its Board of Directors Khalid Mahmud Chowdhury, MP, at BSC Dhaka Tower here.”

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