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Waiting in tears

STAFF CORRESPONDENT
The family was preparing to receive him at Zia International Airport today, after five months of job-inflicted separation.
But the hopes of Lt Col Syed Shamsul Arefin's family collapsed like a house of cards yesterday, when they came to know of his death in a fatal air crash in Benin on Thursday along with 14 of his Bangladesh colleagues.
The wife and three children of Arefin were numbed by the shock of death, unable to utter a word at their dreary Shankar house in Dhaka.
His dazed 75-year-old mother was sill reluctant to believe the truth and pestering the family members with requests to go to the airport to receive his son.
Arefin, the most senior officer among 15 Bangladeshis, took the UTA 141 flight, which smashed into the sea on Thursday after clipping a building as it took off at the West African nation's Cotonou's airport, for home to see his ailing son and mother.
Arefin and the Bangladesh officers were on leave and dreaming of happy family reunions back home.
It was Arefin's first leave after joining the UN peacekeeping mission and he was looking for giving the family, that he missed much during the Eid-ul-Fitr festival, full time during his planned two-month stay in Dhaka.
"Why are you not going to the airport to receive him?" Arefin's
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mother asked his younger son Nazmul Arefin.
The shock of the loss stole the voice of his wife, who sat numbed in a corner.
"We first received the unofficial news from relatives in the morning," said Nazmul, fighting back tears.
"At 9:30am, the army headquarters sent a messenger saying the Benin crash killed all 15 Bangladeshi army personnel on board."
The family's doubt over not getting his body added to its woes.
"As the Boeing plunged into the Atlantic Ocean, we are doubtful about the recovery of the body," said Nazmul.
He referred to an unofficial information that the bodies were retrieved from the ocean, but looked in a fog of disparate information trickling in.
The army could not confirm the report, saying the operation was still on.