Monir Hossain from Tangail's Kalihati upazila left for Kingdom of Saudi Arabia (KSA) only 18 days ago and Bahadur from the same upazila went there a bit earlier, 37 days ago.

Now their families are left devastated as both of them, along with eight others, died in a tragic road crash in the foreign country on Thursday.

Twenty-five-year old Monir, son of Shamsul Haque, was from Kasturypara village, while Bahadur, 35, son of Hafiz Uddin, was from Jhagarman village in the upazila.

The accident took place when a tyre of a minibus, carrying them from Dammam to their workplace

in Madina, burst on the highway near Shaqra.

Their grieving family members said both of them had borrowed large sums of money to go abroad for work and had high hopes of supporting their impoverished families with earnings in Saudi Arabia.

Perplexed about future, Monir's mother Momtaz Begum said the news of her son's death in Saudi Arabia came at a time when her husband, also an expatriate worker in Iraq, remains hospitalised after losing four of his fingers at a factory in that country a few days ago.

"How can I bear the pain of losing my son and a serious injury to my husband at the same time?" Momotaz said.

Bahadur's family on the other hand is in no better situation. He was the sole earner for his ailing parents, physically challenged wife, a daughter and a sister.

Rashida Akter, his widow, said her husband took loan at high interest for going to the kingdom. "Now how would the family run? How would we repay the loan?"

Kalihati Municipality Mayor Ali Akbar Jabbar said, "I wasn't aware of the difficult situation Bahadur's family had been facing. I will arrange allowance cards for the physically challenged members of his family."

Both Monir and Bahadur's family now hope that the government would soon bring home their bodies for burial at home.