The remains of Bangladeshi PhD student Nahida Sultana Bristy, who was brutally murdered in Florida, USA, reached Dhaka this morning.

An Emirates flight carrying the remains landed at Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport around 9:15am, SM Ragib Samad, executive director of the airport, told The Daily Star.

Emirates flight EK 0220 departed from Orlando International Airport at 8:50pm local time on Thursday (6:50am Friday Bangladesh time), with a transit in Dubai. From Dubai, the body was transported on flight EK 0582.

Bristy’s body will be taken to her village home in Madaripur, where she will be buried.

Bristy and another Bangladeshi PhD student, Zamil Ahmed Limon, were allegedly killed by Limon’s roommate in Florida last month.

Limon’s body reached Dhaka on May 4. He was buried later that day in Jamalpur.

Meanwhile, University of South Florida posthumously awarded doctoral degrees to Limon and Bristy on May 8, according to a Facebook post by Golam Mortoza.

The honours were conferred at the university’s Spring Commencement ceremony. A representative from the Bangladesh Consulate in Miami received the degrees on behalf of the families of Limon and Bristy.

Limon and Bristy, both 27-year-old PhD students from Bangladesh at the University of South Florida, went missing on April 16. Limon was last seen at the off-campus apartment complex where he shared a flat with murder suspect Hisham Abugharbieh and another roommate.

Detectives used cellphone location and license plate reader data to track Abugharbieh’s car and Limon’s phone to a bridge where Limon’s body was found on April 24. According to prosecutors, Limon had multiple stab wounds and appeared to have been bound.

Authorities later recovered another body from a nearby waterway on April 26, which was later confirmed to be Bristy.

The suspect was arrested days later by a SWAT team at his parents’ home. Abugharbieh faces two counts of first-degree murder with a weapon, along with other charges.