Nilufar Jahan laid to rest

Nilufar Jahan, wife of Awami League lawmaker Nurul Islam Sujon, was laid to rest in Panchagarh yesterday.

Nilufar, who died at a Dhaka hospital on Saturday, was buried at their family graveyard in Moidandighi village of Boda upazila.

She was admitted to Thakurgaon Sadar Hospital on December 23 with pneumonia, family sources said. She was later transferred to Rangpur Medical College Hospital.

On December 28, she was admitted to Dhaka's Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujib Medical University, where she had been on life support.

Former Jatiya Sangsad speaker Barrister Jamiruddin Sircar, Asaduzzaman Noor MP, AL Organising Secretary Khalid Mahmud Chowdhury MP, among others, attended her namaz-e-janaza at Moidandighi High School.