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Published : 02 Jun 2026, 04:59 PM
The veteran Awami League leader Tofail Ahmed has been laid to rest in his home district of Bhola.
The prominent student leader of the 1960s was buried around 4:15pm on Tuesday in Koralia village under South Dighaldi Union of Bhola Sadar, beside the graves of his parents and wife.
Earlier, thousands of people gathered at Bhola Government High School ground for his funeral prayers, held around 2pm.
Before the prayers, speeches were delivered by Bhola BNP Convenor and District Council Administrator Golam Nabi Alamgir and Tofail’s son-in-law Touhiduzzaman Tuhin.
The prayers were led by Mufti Mojiruddin.
Following the funeral, the administration accorded the prominent Liberation War organiser a guard of honour.
A nine-time lawmaker, Tofail Ahmed, who witnessed many of the turning points in Bangladesh’s political history, died at Square Hospital in Dhaka on Monday afternoon.
He was 83 and had been receiving treatment in the hospital’s intensive care unit.
A leading figure of the 1969 Mass Uprising, Tofail had been admitted on Sept 24 last year with pneumonia-related breathing complications, heart disease and physical weakness, and remained under treatment there for eight months and eight days.
His first funeral prayer was held after Maghrib at Taqwa Mosque in Dhanmondi on Monday, attended by politicians and people from different walks of life.
His body was kept overnight at Square Hospital’s mortuary.
Around 11:30am on Tuesday, his remains were taken from the hospital to Shahjalal International Airport before being flown to Bhola by helicopter.
The helicopter landed at the Bhola helipad at around 1:30pm, and a refrigerated ambulance carried his body to the funeral venue by 2pm.
After the funeral prayers and guard of honour, his body was taken to his ancestral home, where a third funeral prayer was held in the courtyard of a nearby mosque before his burial.
