Former home minister and Awami League presidium member Advocate Sahara Khatun was laid to eternal rest at her mother’s grave at the Banani graveyard in the capital on Saturday morning.
The veteran AL leader was buried at around 11:45am after the second namaz-e-janaza at 11:05am at Banani Jam-e-mosque in the capital.
Earlier, her first namaz-e-janaza was held at Baitul Sharof Jam-e-Mosque near her residence in Farmgate at 10:00am.
Hundreds of AL leaders and activists attended the second namaz-e-janaza maintaining physical distance amid coronavirus contamination threat.
Sahara Khatun, country's first woman home minister, died at Bamrungrad Hospital in Thailand on Thursday night while undergoing treatment. She was flown to Bangkok by an air ambulance on Monday.
Later, the body of Sahara Khatun was brought to Dhaka from Bangkok around 2am on Saturday, by a special flight of US-Bangla Airlines.
Earlier, before brought to Thailand, she was taken to the Intensive Care Unit (ICU) of United Hospital as her condition deteriorated.
Sahara Khatun was admitted to the hospital on June 2 with fever and some old age complications.
The AL leader was elected MP thrice from Dhaka-18 constituency.
