BANGLADESH

Internationally acclaimed filmmaker Tareque Masud was laid to eternal rest in Bhanga upazila of Faridpur Wednesday afternoon. Tareque was buried at his family graveyard at Nurpur village around 2:40pm after his third and final namaz-e-janaza on Bhanga Pilot High School premises.
An ambulance carrying the body of Tareque reached the school premises around 12:00pm, reports our Faridpur correspondent.
Tareque's wife Catherine Masud, Catherine's mother and brother-- Alfreda Shapere and Alfred Shapere-- and a host of Tareque's friends went to Bhanga along with the body to attend the last ritual.
Catherin's mother and brother came from US to attend the burial.
Earlier, the body of Tareque Masud, which was kept in Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujib Medical University (BSMMU) mortuary, was taken to the residence of eminent jurist Dr Kamal Hossain at Bailey Road in the capital around 7:00am as Catherine was staying there.
The ambulance left Dhaka for Faridpur around 8:00am.
Tareque, ATN News chief executive officer Ashfaque Munier Mishuk, film production crew Wasim and Jamal, and microbus driver Mostafizur Rahman were killed on August 13 when a Chuadanga-bound bus collided head-on with their microbus on the Dhaka-Aricha highway at Ghior in Manikganj.
On Sunday, namaz-e-janazas for Tareque and Mishuk were held at Dhaka University Central Mosque and on Zahir Raihan Laboratory premises of Bangladesh Film Development Corporation (BFDC).
Mishuk was buried at Banani graveyard in the capital on Tuesday.
Catherine, painter Dhali Al Mamun, his wife Dilara Zaman Jolly and film production staff Saidul Islam were injured in the accident.
They were on their way to meet the Manikganj deputy commissioner for permission to shoot for Tareque's new film Kagojer Phool after visiting a shooting spot.
Born in 1956 in Faridpur, Tareque Masud directed a number of acclaimed films including Muktir Gaan (The Song of Freedom) in 1995 and Matir Moina (The Clay Bird) in 2002 which won a FIPRESCI Prize at the Cannes Film Festival of the year.