Dhaka, June 5 -- In the midst of Bangladesh's battle against the novel coronavirus, which keeps intensifying, the news came as a shock on Thursday, May 28. The family of a Libyan human trafficker had killed 30 migrants and injured 12 others in revenge for his death the previous day, Libya's internationally recognised Government of National Accord (GNA) said in a simple statement that was thin on details except that those killed comprised 26 Bangladeshi and four African migrants, and they had been killed in the town of Mizda, about 180 kilometres from Tripoli.

That same night, Foreign Minister Dr AK Abdul Momen and Bangladesh Ambassador to Libya Sk Sekander Ali confirmed the incident to our sister newsagency UNB. Different international m...