Nuruddin Echar Uddin
Nuruddin Echar Uddin
Died at work
On January 30, an air conditioning system exploded in the kitchen where Nuruddin worked. One month later, the family received his body from Qatar, where he had traveled four years earlier to work as a chef. His wife says that during the ten years she was married to Nuruddin, she almost never met him. - We got married over the phone when he worked in Dubai and we barely met a few days during our ten-year marriage, says Mosamamat Nazma Akter Beauty Chowdhury who is 26. Now she has to support the family alone. - My only wish now is for our two sons to be able to stay in school.
Told to the journalistic platform Blankspot
In February 2020, the family received the body of Nuruddin Echar Uddin, 36. He had gone to Qatar four years earlier to work as a chef. An air-condition system in the kitchen exploded and killed him.
His wife, Mosamamat Nazma Akter Beauty Chowdhury, who is 26, says that during the 10 years of marriage, she hardly ever saw him.
“We got married over the phone when he worked in Dubai, and didn’t spend many days together as husband and wife,” she says in a call from Bahubal in the Habiganj district in northeastern Bangladesh.
Now she has to provide for the family with the money she received from the employer in Qatar and the Bangladeshi government.
“My highest wish, what I pray for is that my two sons can continue their education.”
The Wage Earners’ Welfare Board, Ministry of Expatriates Welfare and Overseas Employment, has awarded the widow $410 for funeral expenses and another $3,500 as compensation for the death.
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