DHAKA: Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has sent a message to Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques and also Saudi King Salman bin Abdulaziz Al-Saud.

The PM expressed her deep shock at the loss of life and injuries in a tragic stampede during the hajj pilgrimage in Makkah Thursday.

Sheikh Hasina, now in New York to join the 70th UN General Assembly, said, ‘The people and government of Bangladesh join me in expressing their deepest condolences and heartfelt sympathies to Your Majesty, and through you to the bereaved family members of the victims and the injured people from different countries’.

She also prayed to Almighty Allah for granting them the accepted hajj and the highest place in the paradise.

“May the Almighty Allah grant the victims and their near and dear ones the fortitude and patience to bear this irreparable loss," she said.

BDST: 2118 HRS, SEPT 24, 2015
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