Body of Bangladeshi student Bristy recovered in Florida

The body of Bangladeshi student Nahida Sultana Bristy, who was killed in Florida in the United States, has been recovered.

The Bangladesh Embassy in Washington confirmed the matter on Friday.

Florida police informed Bristy’s brother over the phone that the second body recovered in connection with the case was hers. Her family has requested that the body be sent back to Bangladesh.

The embassy, through the Bangladesh Consulate in Miami, has started the process of repatriating the body.

Meanwhile, the body of Jamil Ahmed Limon, another Bangladeshi student who was found dead earlier, is scheduled to be sent to Bangladesh from Orlando International Airport on Saturday (2 May). It is expected to reach Dhaka via Dubai on 4 May.

Limon, a PhD student in geography, environmental science and policy at the University of South Florida, had been missing for around 10 days before his body was recovered by police on 24 April.

Bristy, also a Bangladeshi PhD student, went missing on the same day. Police later recovered parts of her body from a waterbody near I-275 and North Fourth Street in Florida.