The Japanese government is planning to send a plane to Bangladesh on Sunday evening to bring family members of the victims.

Chief Cabinet Secretary Yoshihide Suga says the plane will also carry staff from the Foreign Ministry, the Japanese development agency and the companies the victims worked for.

Seven Japanese died in the militant siege of a restaurant in Dhaka, and one survived with a gunshot wound. All eight were working for three Tokyo-based consulting firms on a Japanese government-funded infrastructure project.

The father of one of the victims says that ‘this is something unbearable as a parent.’ Komakichi Okamura spoke about the death of his 32-year-old son Makoto Okamura to Japanese media in front of his house Sunday morning.

He said he told his son to be careful before he left. He said: ‘That was the last conversation I had with him on the telephone.’