Dhaka: Italian Deputy Foreign Minister and Under-Secretary Mario Giro left Dhaka for Rome, Italy on Tuesday afternoon by a special flight with the bodies of nine Italians killed in the Gulshan terrorist attack on Friday.

He arrived on Tuesday morning to receive the bodies and visited Holey Artisan Bakery café in Gulshan where 22 people including two policemen and several foreign nationals were killed by militants.

Giro left the country along with the bodies at about 1:15pm, said an official adding that State Minister for Foreign Affairs M Shahriar Alam saw him off at the airport.  

Earlier, a special aircraft of Japan government left Shahjalal Airport on Monday night, carrying the bodies of seven Japanese nationals killed in the terrorist attack.

The aircraft landed at Tokyo's Haneda airport shortly before 6 am (local time), said a diplomatic source.  

The Indian government has also taken back the body of Tarishi Jain, the lone Indian national killed during the attack, to New Delhi on Monday night.

Twenty hostages, including nine Italians and one person each from the United States and India as well as the seven Japanese, were killed in the terrorist attack on Friday evening.