“An advertisement agency official died while four others including the pilot were injured in the crash”, Abdul Malek, deputy assistant director of Cox’s Bazar Fire Service and Civil Defence, told journalists.
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After dropping off Shakib at Royal Tulip Sea Pearl Beach Resort at Inani Beach, pilot Shafiqul Islam was taking another Eagle B employee Shariful Islam and his two sons to Dhaka when the helicopter crashed, said Ukhia police SI Md Omar Faruk.
But on its return journey to the capital Dhaka, the helicopter crashed near Inani beach, just north of where Shakib and his wife had landed.
The couple were reportedly going to shoot a commercial.
Those injured are undergoing treatment at Ukhia Upazila Health Complex. The Daily Star quoted Shakib as saying.
The injured were whisked off to Cox’s Bazar Sadar Hospital where an emergency department doctor Rafiqul Islam declared Shah Alam dead.
The 29-year-old is the International Cricket Council’s No.1 ranked one-day international allrounder and is in second on the Test and Twenty20 International allrounder charts.
For the record, in 2015 he became the first ever cricketer to have ranked number one in all three formats of the game.
In 157 ODIs, he has scored 4398 runs with six hundreds.
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In 54 T20I matches, Shakib has scored 1103 runs and taken 65 wickets.
