Dhaka, Bangladesh (BBN)– The body of popular writer Humayun Ahmed is likely to flown back to the capital Dhaka on Sunday.
His body will be taken to the Central Shaheed Minar premises on Monday morning for people to pay their last respect to the noted filmmaker and writer under the supervision of Sammilita Sangskritik Jote.
His first namaj-e-janaja is expected to be held after Jumma prayer on Friday at a local mosque in Jamaika, New York, according to reports.
The body of the writer is now kept at an Islamic funeral home in Jamaica.
Meanwhile, different media reports said the writer will be laid to eternal rest at Nuhash Palli of Gazipur district.
Humayun Ahmed, 64, died while undergoing treatment for cancer at Manhattan’s Bellevue Hospital at New York Thursday night.
His wife Meher Afroz Shaon and younger brother Professor Muhammed Zafar Iqbal, a reputed writer himself, were present when he breathed his last at around 11:20pm (local time).
Nicknamed Kajol, the writer was born in Kutubpur village of Netrakona on November 13, 1948, to Fayzur Rahman Ahmed, a police officer, and Ayesha Fayzur.
The eldest among three brothers and two sisters, Humayun was also a renowned filmmaker and dramatist.
He went to New York on September 14 last year after being diagnosed with colon cancer during a routine check-up in Singapore.
He underwent two surgeries last month. After the second surgery, he was infected with a virus unknown to the doctors, which spread through the body.
A former associate professor of the chemistry department of Dhaka University, Humayun came into prominence after the publication of his first novel, Nondito Noroke, in 1974.
President Zillur Rahman, Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina and Opposition Leader Khaleda Zia expressed deep shock at the death of country’s most contemporary writer.
BBN/SSR/AD-20July12-2:44 pm (BST)
