Bangladeshi worker in ICU

A Bangladeshi migrant worker injured in a Qatar road accident is being treated in the intensive care unit (ICU) at Hamad General Hospital in the Gulf country.

Md Farid, 30, was hurt in the road crash near Dukhan, around 30km away from Doha, which also killed at least four other Bangladeshi migrants on Tuesday.

"Three other Bangladeshis were released from the hospital as they were not injured critically. We are keeping an eye on the condition of Farid," Serajul Islam, labour counsellor at Bangladesh embassy in Doha, told The Daily Star yesterday over the phone.

The Bangladeshis were going to their workplaces by a minibus which skidded off the road as its driver lost control over the vehicle, he added. The Egyptian driver was also injured.

The bodies were kept at the hospital mortuary.

"We will send the bodies to Bangladesh after completion of the official procedures including police report," the counsellor mentioned.

All of them, including the injured, hail from Kanaighat upazila, Sylhet.

About compensations, Serajul Islam said the Bangladeshis entered Qatar legally for work-visas but the embassy was trying to collect details of their sponsors.

He said it was difficult to get compensations if the sponsors become individual.