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US-BANGLA CRASH

Local insurer compensates families of eight victims

Star Business Report
Families of six Bangladeshi passengers who died and two who were injured in last March's US-Bangla plane crash in Kathmandu were handed over compensation by the airline's local insurer yesterday.
The six are Umme
Salma, Nazia Afrin Chowdhury, Alifiizzaman, Tahira Tanvin Sashi Reza, Pias Roy and Tamara Priyonmmoyee. Each of their families received $51,250 (Tk 43 lakh).
Meanwhile injured Mehedi Hassan received $27,000 (Tk 22.68 lakh) while Syeda Kamrun Nahar Swarna $15,000 (Tk 12.6 lakh). The compensations were based on the gravity of their injuries.
Major General Firoz Hasan, chairman of Sena Kalyan Insurance Company, handed over the cheques at the Sena Kalyan Sangstha auditorium in the capital.
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On March 12, the 76-seater Bombardier had 71 people, including four crew members, on board when it crashed in a football pitch nearTribhuvan International Airport.
Twenty seven Bangladeshis (including all four crew members), 22 Nepalese and one Chinese died and the rest were injured.
So far, the insurer paid families of 16 victims Tk 15 crore in total as compensation, Brig Gen (retired) Md Shafique Shamim, CEO of Sena Kalyan Insurance, said at yesterday's programme.
Families of the remaining victims will receive theirs once courts decide which family member to hand it over to, he said.
Most of the nine Bangladeshis who survived are still receiving treatment. The
insurance company spent up to Tk 4 crore for one survivor who was critically injured, said the top executive.
US-Bangla took insurance coverage of $107 million from Sena Kalyan and Sadharan Bima Corporation. Of the sum, $7 million was for the aircraft and $100 million as passenger liabilities.
Of the liability portion, about 1 percent is shared between Sena Kalyan Insurance and Sadharan Bima while the rest reinsured with foreign insurance companies, including Catlin and Halifax, both subsidiaries of global insurance giant Lloyds, and the General Insurance Corporation of India.
Sadharan Bima had already paid the full coverage of $7 million to the airline.