BANGLADESH NEWS
The body of popular fiction writer Humayun Ahmed who died at a New York hospital on Thursday will be brought home on Sunday.
Family sources said his first namaz-e-janaza will be held at Muslim centre in Jamaica on Friday after Jumma prayers.
Cartoonist Ahsan Habib, younger brother of Humayun, said he may be laid to rest at Nuhash Palli in Gazipur.
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 Bangladesh 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.
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