A man from Jharkhand’s Giridih district was killed in Saudi Arabia earlier this month after getting caught in a crossfire between local police and suspected bootleggers, according to officials and his family members. The Jharkhand labour department contacted the Indian Embassy in Saudi Arabia on Friday to facilitate the return of the body of a 26-year-old youth, officials said. Shikha Lakra, team leader at the Migrant Control Cell under the labour department, told PTI that the department received information from Giridih about the death of a migrant worker in Saudi Arabia and a request to bring back his body. “We got in touch with the Indian Embassy immediately and are trying to contact Jeddah police authorities for completing the formalities and then bring back the body to his nativ

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