Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina to visit bereaving BNP chief Khaleda Zia

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina will visit grieving BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia whose son Arafat Rahman Coco died earlier on Saturday.

Senior Correspondentbdnews24.com
Published : 24 Jan 2015, 01:30 PM
Updated : 24 Jan 2015, 02:50 PM

Deputy Press Secretary to the Prime Minister Ashraful Alam Khokon told bdnews24.com that Hasina would head to Khaleda’s Gulshan office from her Ganabhaban residence around 8pm.

The BNP chief’s youngest son, carrying a six-year jail sentence for laundering money abroad, died of heart failure in Malaysia.

Khaleda’s Press Secretary Maruf Kamal Khan told bdnews24.com that the 45-year-old was being taken to a hospital on Saturday afternoon Bangladesh time but he collapsed on the way.