{"id":1258,"date":"2013-05-23T23:04:49","date_gmt":"2013-05-23T17:04:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bartabangla.com\/english\/?p=1258"},"modified":"2013-05-23T23:04:49","modified_gmt":"2013-05-23T17:04:49","slug":"govt-moves-to-bring-sajal-home","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bartabangla.com\/english\/govt-moves-to-bring-sajal-home\/","title":{"rendered":"Govt moves to bring Sajal home"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bartabangla.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/sojol-averast.png\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-1259\" alt=\"sojol averast\" src=\"http:\/\/www.bartabangla.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/sojol-averast-300x184.png\" width=\"300\" height=\"184\" \/><\/a><\/b><b>BartaBangla Desk ::\u00a0<\/b>Bangladesh is in touch with the Nepal authorities to bring the remains of Mohammad Khaled Hossain Sajal, who died descending Mount Everest.<\/p>\n<p>Khaled was the fifth Bangladeshi to stand on the world\u2019s highest mountain.<\/p>\n<p>Mohammad Moinul Hossain, First Secretary at the Bangladesh Embassy in Nepal, has confirmed bdnews24.com about the move on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe Ministry of Foreign Affairs has informed us that the Bangladesh government will bear the cost for returning Sajal\u2019s body from the Everest summit,\u201d he said. \u201cThe process will cost USD 60,000.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019ve already talked to the Sherpas. Ten of them will start in the morning of the day after tomorrow to carry the body to the base camp,\u201d Hossain added.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier, the family of the daredevil said Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina had assured them of getting his remains back to them.<\/p>\n<p>The 35-year old mountaineer, popularly known as Sajal Khaled after he directed a children\u2019s film, died on May 20 while coming down from the world&#8217;s tallest peak.<\/p>\n<p>\u201dThe Prime Minister has communicated with our family,\u201d Nasir Khan Shaikat, younger brother of the mountaineer\u2019s wife Tahmina Khan Shoili, told bdnews24.com on Thursday evening.<\/p>\n<p>\u201dShe has assured us of providing all sorts of support for getting Sajal Khaled\u2019s body back,\u201d he added.Musa Ibrahim, the first Bangladeshi to scale Mt Everest in 2010, also voiced similar feelings to bdnews24.com on Thursday morning.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe (Khaled) went via Nepal\u2019s Himalayan Guide Private Limited. The agency\u2019s entrepreneur Iswari Poudel said 10 Sherpas were needed to bring back his body.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Khaled\u2019s corpse is at the south summit, some 28,750 feet from ground level in the high Himalayas, Ibrahim said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAlmost $50,000 is needed to bring back his body.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Shaikat said: \u201cWe have been able to reach the First Secretary of the Embassy in Kathmandu.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201dThe fears over the finances we had about getting back Sajal is no more there after we got in touch with the Prime Minister,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BartaBangla Desk ::\u00a0Bangladesh is in touch with the Nepal authorities to bring the remains of Mohammad Khaled Hossain Sajal, who died descending Mount Everest. Khaled was the fifth Bangladeshi to stand on the world\u2019s highest mountain. Mohammad Moinul Hossain, First Secretary at the Bangladesh Embassy in Nepal, has confirmed bdnews24.com about the move on Thursday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-1258","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-national"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bartabangla.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1258","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bartabangla.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bartabangla.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bartabangla.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bartabangla.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1258"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bartabangla.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1258\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bartabangla.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1258"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bartabangla.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1258"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bartabangla.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1258"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}