Bangladesh has issued a travel alert for its citizens who want to travel to New Zealand following the mass shootings which have left so far five Bangladeshis killed.
The Bangladesh mission in Australia issued the travel advisory on Friday (Mar 15), hours after a lone gunman killed 50 people in two mosques in Christchurch, Foreign Minister AK Momen told a media call in Dhaka on Monday (Mar 18).
He said that five Bangladesh nationals have been killed in the attacks, while three others were injured and one is missing.
The deceased are Dr Abdus Samad, Hosne Ara Ahmed, Omar Faruk, Mozammel Haque, and Zakaria Bhuiyan.
Those being treated at hospital are Lipi, Mutassim, and Sheikh Hasan Rubel.
Lipi is still in critical condition while injuries of the two others were non-life threatening.
The Christchurch attack had been discussed during Monday’s weekly cabinet meeting, said Momen.
The foreign office has appointed one of its officials for providing assistance to the families of the mosque shootings victims.
The official will help the relatives of victims for travelling to New Zealand to bring back the bodies or arrange the funerals.
Earlier, the government of New Zealand decided to release the bodies of Bangladeshi victims to their family.
On Friday, a gunman opened fire in two mosques in Christchurch, New Zealand, killing at least 50 and injuring more than 20 others.
The gunman distributed a live stream of the attack on social, after publishing a "manifesto", which he had emailed to New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern’s offices.
Several members of the Bangladesh national cricket narrowly escaped the attack on one of the mosques.
Australian Brenton Tarrant, 28, a suspected white supremacist, was charged with murder on Saturday over the mass shootings.