Khoka’s body brought home

The body of former mayor of undivided Dhaka City Corporation and BNP vice-chairman Sadeque Hossain Khoka arrived in Dhaka from the USA.

A flight of Emirates Airline carrying his body landed at Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport around 8:28am on Thursday.

BNP Chairperson’s media wing member Sayrul Kabir Khan confirmed it to media.

BNP standing committee members Mirza Abbas and Iqbal Hasan Mahmud Tuku received the body at the airport on behalf of the party.

Khoka, a valiant freedom fighter, died at the Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center in New York on Monday. 

His first Namaz-e-Janaza was held at Jamaica Muslim Center, New York on Monday night.