At least two Bangladesh nationals were killed last week in Saudi Arabia when Houthi rebels in Yemen fired mortar shells across the border into Saudi Arabia, Bangladesh’s ministry of foreign affairs said yesterday.
Mizan and Abdul Jalil were working at a farm in the Najran area, 650km (400 miles) from Jeddah and 50km (30 miles) from the Yemen border.
Khaleda Begum, spokeswoman of the ministry, said Bangladesh diplomats had visited the area immediately after the incident and contacted the employers of the victims as well as family members in Bangladesh.
It was the first time Bangladesh citizens had been killed in any incident resulting from the Yemeni violence.
