Bangladeshi student Jamil Ahmed Limon, who was brutally murdered in the US state of Florida, was laid to rest at his village home in Jamalpur district on Monday (May 4).
Limon was laid to rest beside his grandparents at their family graveyard at Karaichara union in Jamalpur district around 8:00pm.
Later, prayers were offered seeking blessing of his departed soul.
Earlier, his namaz-e-janaza was held after Magrib prayers at Lal Doba High School ground. Mostafizur Rahman Babul, MP of Jamalpur-3, along with Limon's relatives, neighbours, friends, and villagers, attended the funeral prayer.
A freezer van carrying Limon's body reached Lal Doba from Dhaka Airport around 3:12pm.
Earlier in the day, an Emirates flight carrying his remains landed at Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport in Dhaka around 8:47am.
The body of Nahida Sultana Bristy, another Bangladeshi who was killed in the same incident, is expected to be brought back within two days, according to foreign ministry sources.
On April 16, Limon and Bristy, both PhD students at the University of South Florida in the United States, went missing. Using mobile phone location data and car GPS tracking, authorities recovered Limon's body from a bridge on April 24 and Bristy's body from a nearby water body two days later.
A few days after the incident, a SWAT team arrested the suspect, Hisham Abugharbiyeh, from his parents' home.
A court has since ordered that he be held without bail. Hillsborough County Judge Logan Murphy also directed that the accused must not contact the victims' families or witnesses under any circumstances.
On April 30, Limon's first namaj-e-janaza was held at the Islamic Society of Tampa Bay Area mosque in Tampa, Florida. His classmates, relatives, media representatives, and members of the local Bangladeshi expatriate community took part in the janaza.
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