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“My husband’s employer was not a good man. His body was stuck there for over two years. We couldn’t pay off the bills to bring him back,” said Khorsheda Begum, widow of Shipon.
Shipon Howlader, 44, from Barishal’s Shahjira village in Gaurnadi upazila went to Brunei in mid-2020, amid the Covid-19 pandemic. The dream was to ensure financial solvency for his family. But it all fell apart after he was diagnosed with a heart disease in early 2022. He later died while undergoing treatment at a hospital.
The expatriate’s…
