{"id":7391,"date":"2026-05-09T07:28:32","date_gmt":"2026-05-09T07:28:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hernet.news\/?p=7391"},"modified":"2026-05-09T07:28:32","modified_gmt":"2026-05-09T07:28:32","slug":"body-of-murdered-bangladeshi-student-nahida-sultana-brishti-arrives-in-dhaka-from-florida","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hernet.news\/?p=7391","title":{"rendered":"Body of Murdered Bangladeshi Student Nahida Sultana Brishti Arrives in Dhaka from Florida"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The body of Bangladeshi student <strong>Nahida Sultana Brishti<\/strong>, who was killed in a brutal incident in the US state of Florida, arrived in Dhaka on Saturday morning, bringing a wave of grief to her family and loved ones.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The aircraft carrying her remains landed at <strong>Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport<\/strong> at around <strong>9:00am Bangladesh time<\/strong>. About an hour later, the ambulance carrying her coffin left the airport\u2019s cargo village area as her parents, relatives, and family members gathered in mourning.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Brishti\u2019s body had left <strong>Orlando International Airport<\/strong> in Florida on Thursday local time aboard an Emirates flight and reached Dhaka via <strong>Dubai<\/strong>. Officials from Bangladesh\u2019s diplomatic mission in the United States were involved in the repatriation process, and a representative from the Bangladesh Consulate in Miami was present during earlier funeral proceedings in Florida.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A first funeral prayer for Brishti was held on Wednesday in <strong>Tampa<\/strong>, where students, teachers, and members of the Bangladeshi community joined to pay their respects. Brishti, 27, was a <strong>PhD student in chemical engineering<\/strong> at the <strong>University of South Florida<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Another Bangladeshi PhD student from the same university, <strong>Jamil Ahmed Limon<\/strong>, 27, was also killed in the same case. His body was brought back to Bangladesh on <strong>May 4<\/strong>. The university has posthumously awarded doctoral degrees to both Brishti and Limon.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The two students were reported missing on <strong>April 16<\/strong> after a friend alerted university authorities. Police later confirmed that both had been murdered. A US citizen, <strong>Hisham Abughraibeh<\/strong>, who was Limon\u2019s roommate, has been arrested in connection with the killings.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The body of Bangladeshi student Nahida Sultana Brishti, who was killed in a brutal incident in the US state of Florida, arrived in Dhaka on Saturday morning, bringing a wave of grief to her family and loved ones. The aircraft carrying her remains landed at Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport at around 9:00am Bangladesh time. About [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":7394,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7391","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-5"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hernet.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7391","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hernet.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hernet.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hernet.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hernet.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7391"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/hernet.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7391\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7396,"href":"https:\/\/hernet.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7391\/revisions\/7396"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hernet.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/7394"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hernet.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7391"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hernet.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7391"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hernet.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7391"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}