Mehedi, too, attends Janaza of air crash victims

Mehedi Hasan, a survivor of the US-Bangla plane crash in Nepal, on Monday attended the namaz-e-janaza of the victims, who were his fellow passengers on that fateful flight.

Mehedi, still being treated at the Dhaka Medical College Hospital, could not but join hundreds of others at the janaza of the victims, including his beloved brother and niece, at the Army Stadium.

"I have come here to bid my brother and my niece the last farewell," said a teary Mehedi, who went back to the hospital following the janaza.

With cuts and bruises all over the body and injured neck and head, a sobbing Mehedi was recounting the fateful journey and how he survived the gory incident.

"It was my first plane journey. I was very excited seeing Nepal through the window. Everything seemed perfect when the airhostess announced that the flight would land in 10-15 minutes and asked the passengers to tie the seat belt.

"Then all on a sudden, the plane jerked twice or thrice and veered off the runway. Flames engulfed the carrier in no time. I along with my wife could come out of the rubble through a broken part in the middle of aircraft," Mehedi narrated.

Mehedi, his wife Syeda Kamrunnahar Swarna, and sister-in-law Alamun Nahan Anny were lucky to survive miraculously. But his brother Faruque Hossain Priyok and daughter Tamara Priyonmoyee were killed in the accident.

Priyok and Priyonmoyee would be buried at their village home in Sreepur upazila of Gazipur.