A second Bangladeshi has been named from among a group of foreign workers taken hostage last week by the Islamic State militant group in an attack on a Libyan oilfield.
As many as 10 people are missing after the attack on the Al-Ghani oilfield south of the city of Sirte, Czech and Libyan officials have said.
There has been no sign of the oil workers from Austria, the Czech republic, Bangladesh, the Philippines and at least one African country, an Austrian foreign ministry spokesman said.
Bangladesh’s foreign ministry today identified the second abducted citizen as Mohammad Anowar Hossain, a resident of Noakhali, about 103 miles south-east of Dhaka.
He had mistakenly been identified as a Sudanese national with a similar name at first, the ministry added.
His identification was confirmed by a Bangladeshi working in a neighboring oilfield.
Libyan militants claiming loyalty to Islamic State in Iraq and Syria have been blamed for high-profile attacks this year involving foreigners, including an assault on a Tripoli hotel and the beheading of a group of Egyptian Christians.
Militants this month also stormed and damaged several Libyan oilfields around al-Ghani, forcing the government to declare force majeure, pull out workers and shut down production on 11 oilfields in the central Sirte basin.