Dhaka, Mar 18 (UNI) The Bangladesh government is discouraging citizens to travel to New Zealand following last terror attacks that killed five Bangladeshis living there.
Foreign Minister AK Abdul Momen says they had issued a travel advisory soon after the attack at the Al Noor and Lynnwood mosques in Christchurch during Friday prayers on March 15.
He confirmed the news of death of five Bangladeshis. Those include former professor of Bangladesh Agriculture University Prof Abdus Samad, Hosne Ara Ahmed, wife of Farid Ahmed from Sylhet, Mozammel Haque from Chandpur, Zakaria Bhuiyan from Narsingdi Palash and Mohammed Omar Faruk from Natayanganj.