Akhtaruzzaman's body arrives
Burial tomorrow
The body of Akhtaruzzaman Chowdhury Babu, Awami League presidium member and lawmaker from Chittagong-12, arrived in Dhaka at 5:40pm yesterday on a flight of Biman Bangladesh Airlines from Singapore.
Family members, associates and party men thronged Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport to receive the body.
Babu's first namaz-e-janaza will be held at South Plaza of Parliament at 11:00am today.
Later, the body will be taken to Chittagong by helicopter.
His second namaz-e-janaza will be held in the port city's Jamiatul Falah Mosque after Asr prayers today.
Family sources said his namaz-e-janaza will also be held tomorrow on the district's Pacchim Patiya AJ Chowdhury ground at 11:00am and Anwara High School premises at 2:00pm.
He will be buried at his family graveyard at Hyle Dhor in the district's Anwara upazila following another namaz-e-janaza on Hyle Dhor School ground after Asr prayers tomorrow.
Babu, a Liberation War organiser, died of kidney failure at Mount Elizabeth Hospital in Singapore on November 4 at the age of 71.
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