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Zayan’s body reaches home from Sri Lanka
DHAKA, April 24, 2019 (BSS) – The body of Awami League Presidium Member
Sheikh Fazlul Karim Selim’s grandson Zayan Chowdhury, 8, who was killed in
recent Sri Lanka blast, reached here this noon.
“An aircraft (UL 189) of Sri Lankan Airlines carrying the body of Zayan
arrived at Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport here at 12:40 pm today. . .
Later his body was taken to Banani residence,” Sheikh Selim’s younger brother
Sheikh Fazlur Rahman Maruf told BSS.
Former Minister and Zayan’s grandfather Sheikh Fazlul Karim Selim and
Sheikh Helal Uddin, MP, received the body at the airport. Foreign Minister Dr
AK Abdul Momen was present at that time.
Besides, Awami League (AL) Advisory Council Member Tofail Ahmed, AL acting
General Secretary Mahbub-Ul-Alam Hanif, former Railways Minister M Mujibul
Haque, Dhaka South City Corporation (DSCC) Mayor Atiqul Islam and Director
General of Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) Benazir Ahmed, were also present.
A class two student of an Uttara school, Zayan was a son of Moshiul Haque
Chowdhary and Sheikh Sonia, will be buried at the Banani graveyard following
his namaz-e-janaza at Banani Chairmanbari ground after Asr prayer.
Moshiul Haque also suffered splinter injuries in kidney and liver in the
deadly terror attack in Sri Lanka’s capital on Easter Sunday, killing at
least 300 people and injured several hundred others.
BSS/Corr-SIR/GMR/1400 hrs