USF student Bristy laid to rest in Madaripur
Bangladeshi PhD student Nahida Sultana Bristy, who was brutally murdered in USA’s Florida, was laid to rest at her village home in Chargobindapur under Madaripur Sadar upazila this afternoon.
She was buried at a graveyard beside her house after her namaz-e-janaza at 5:45pm, reports our Shariatpur correspondent from the spot.
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Madaripur Sadar Upazila Nirbahi Officer (UNO) Wadia Shabab was present during the funeral.
Around 1:30pm, the ambulance carrying Bristy’s body arrived at her home from Dhaka, creating an emotional scene among family members and locals gathered there.
Earlier, Bristy’s remains reached Dhaka this morning.
Bristy and another Bangladeshi PhD student, Zamil Ahmed Limon, were allegedly killed by Limon’s roommate in Florida last month.
Limon’s body reached Dhaka on May 4. He was buried later that day in Jamalpur.
Meanwhile, University of South Florida posthumously awarded doctoral degrees to Limon and Bristy on May 8, according to a Facebook post by Golam Mortoza.
Limon and Bristy, both 27-year-old PhD students from Bangladesh at the University of South Florida, went missing on April 16. Limon was last seen at the off-campus apartment complex where he shared a flat with murder suspect Hisham Abugharbieh and another roommate.
Detectives used cellphone location and license plate reader data to track Abugharbieh’s car and Limon’s phone to a bridge where Limon’s body was found on April 24. According to prosecutors, Limon had multiple stab wounds and appeared to have been bound.
Authorities later recovered another body from a nearby waterway on April 26, which was later confirmed to be Bristy.
The suspect was arrested days later by a SWAT team at his parents’ home. Abugharbieh faces two counts of first-degree murder with a weapon, along with other charges.
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