Dhaka: Saudi Ambassador to Bangladesh Abdullah HM Al-Mutairi met BNP chairperson Khaleda Zia on Sunday night.

The meeting that lasted for nearly a40 minutes from 8:30pm was held at the BNP chairperson’s Gulshan office.

BNP chairperson’s advisers Mir Nasiruddin, Sabihuddin Ahmad and her Middle East affairs special envoy Enamul Haque Chowdhury were present.

The BNP chief expressed deep shock at the casualties in the crane collapse at Grand Mosque of Makkah.

She also sent a condolence message to the Saudi King through the ambassador.

Abdullah Al-Mutairi arrived in Dhaka on July 26, 2015 as Ambassador-Designate of Saudi Arabia to Bangladesh and presented his credentials to the President on August 19.