DHAKA: The second Namaz-e-Janaza of Syeda Zohra Tajuddin, Awami League (AL) Advisory Council member and wife of the first Prime Minister of Bangladesh Tajuddin Ahmad, held at the party office at city’s Bangabandhu Avenue on Friday afternoon.

Later, Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina paid her homage as party president.

She breathed her last at 10:30am in city’s United Hospital. She was 80.

AL general secretary Sayed Ashraful Islam, Amir Hossain Amu, Tofail Ahmed and others were present in the first Namaz-e-Janaza at around 5:11pm.

The body was kept for a while for people to pay their respect to Zohra Tajuddin.

The first Namaz-e-Janaza of Syeda Zohra Tajuddin, Awami League (AL) Advisory Council member and wife of the first Prime Minister of Bangladesh Tajuddin Ahmad, held at city’s Azad Mosque of Gulshan area around 4:21pm.

* Zohra Tajuddin passes away

BDST: 2010 HRS, DEC 20, 2013
Edited by: AM Imran Ali/Shameem Reza, Newsroom Editors