The remains of a Bangladeshi hero were returned home on Saturday, 35 years after he died in a plane crash in Pakistan. Prime Minister Khaleda Zia, government ministers and armed services chiefs were on the tarmac at Zia International airport as the coffin of Flight Lieutenant Motiur Rahman was returned to Bangladesh. Rahman's widow and grown-up daughter were also there.
Rahman died after a fighter plane he hijacked from a Karachi airbase crashed near the India-Pakistan border during 1971 war. News channels broadcast live pictures as the coffin arrived in the capital late Saturday aboard a special flight of the state-owned Biman Bangladesh Airlines.
Rahman, one of seven BD soldiers decorated with the highest war-time gallantry award, Bir Shrestra, was buried in Karachi.
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