Despite prayers and good wishes, Humayun Ahmed, losing his battle to cancer, started on his final trip to Bangladesh, in a coffin.
Relatives of the popular contemporary fiction writer boarded a flight from the John F Kenedy Airport around 9am (BDST) on Sunday.
Hundreds of expatriate Bangladeshis have gathered at the airport to bid final farewell to the writer. The Bangladeshi permanent envoy to the UN A K Abdul Momen was present too at the time of departure.
Momen said the Emirates flight carrying the writer's mortal remains was scheduled to land at the Hazrat Shahajalal International Airport, Dhaka at 8:40am on Monday via Dubai.
The writer will be laid to rest at Nuhash Palli on Tuesday.
Earlier, Shammilata Shangskritik Jote President Nasiruddin Yusuf Bacchu said the writer's remains will be kept at the Central Shaheed Minar on Monday from 11am to 2pm so that public can pay their last respect.
He said a janaza will be held at the National Eidgaah at 2:30pm and then Humayun's body will be kept at Birdem's mortuary.
The writer will be laid to rest at Nuhash Palli after Johr prayers On Tuesday, Bachchu added.
The prolific writer breathed his last at a New York hospital after suffering from cancer for nine months. When his condition deteriorated, his younger brother Muhammad Zafar Iqbal and his wife Yasmin Haq went to New York and were with Humayun when he died.
The writer's first wife, Gultekin, was in New York too but she was not seen at the hospital or anywhere. According to sources, she might be present at the burial at Nuhash Palli.
A family source said Gultekin was supposed to arrive in Bangladesh by 11am on Monday.
Humayun was diagnosed with cancer less than a year ago. The prolific writer, who has authored more than 300 bestsellers, was 64 at the time of his death.
Relatives of the popular contemporary fiction writer boarded a flight from the John F Kenedy Airport around 9am (BDST) on Sunday.
Hundreds of expatriate Bangladeshis have gathered at the airport to bid final farewell to the writer. The Bangladeshi permanent envoy to the UN A K Abdul Momen was present too at the time of departure.
Momen said the Emirates flight carrying the writer's mortal remains was scheduled to land at the Hazrat Shahajalal International Airport, Dhaka at 8:40am on Monday via Dubai.
The writer will be laid to rest at Nuhash Palli on Tuesday.
Earlier, Shammilata Shangskritik Jote President Nasiruddin Yusuf Bacchu said the writer's remains will be kept at the Central Shaheed Minar on Monday from 11am to 2pm so that public can pay their last respect.
He said a janaza will be held at the National Eidgaah at 2:30pm and then Humayun's body will be kept at Birdem's mortuary.
The writer will be laid to rest at Nuhash Palli after Johr prayers On Tuesday, Bachchu added.
The prolific writer breathed his last at a New York hospital after suffering from cancer for nine months. When his condition deteriorated, his younger brother Muhammad Zafar Iqbal and his wife Yasmin Haq went to New York and were with Humayun when he died.
The writer's first wife, Gultekin, was in New York too but she was not seen at the hospital or anywhere. According to sources, she might be present at the burial at Nuhash Palli.
A family source said Gultekin was supposed to arrive in Bangladesh by 11am on Monday.
Humayun was diagnosed with cancer less than a year ago. The prolific writer, who has authored more than 300 bestsellers, was 64 at the time of his death.
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