Bhubaneswar: Arup Patnaik, Convenor Odisha- Mo Parivar and Bibekananda Pattnaik, Honorary Adviser Odisha – Mo Parivar received the mortal remains of deceased youths Shaikh Mantaj, Kamarda, Balasore and Shaikh Baharuddin, Badachana, Jajpur at the Cargo Area of Netaji Subhash Chandra Bose International Airport, Kolkata on behalf of Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik.
Both of them breathed their last at Tokyo, Japan in a mishap. On behalf of the CM, Patnaik also provided a token of assistance to the family of the deceased youths. Baharuddin and Mantaj were working as cook at a restaurant in Tokyo. They died due to asphyxiation because of gas leakage on January 30.
Union Minister of State for Ministry of Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises Pratap Chandra Sarangi had written to External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar to initiate measures so that the bodies could be brought back to Odisha.