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Published on August 24, 2015
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina attended the milad and doa mahfil. Besides, relatives, friends and well-wishers of the deceased as well as ministers, parliament members, leaders of Awami League and its associate bodies and directors of Bangladesh Cricket Board joined the milad and doa mahfil.
They included Agriculture Minister Begum Matia Chowdhury, State Minister for Women and Children Affairs Meher Afroz Chumki, State Minister for Power, Energy and Mineral Resources Nasrul Hamid Bipu, Chairman of Parliamentary Standing Committee on the Ministry of Information AKM Rahmatullah, PM's Press Secretary Ihsanul Karim and Special Assistant Mahbubul Hoque Shakil.
A special munajat was offered on the occasion, seeking eternal peace of the departed souls of Ivy Rahman, Zillur Rahman and other victims of the August 21 carnage.
Earlier, the Prime Minister talked to the family members of the deceased including Nazmul Hasan Papon, MP, son of late Ivy Rahman, and consoled them.
On this day in 2004, Ivy Rahman succumbed to splinter injuries she suffered in the August 21 grisly grenade attack on a peaceful Awami League rally on city's Bangabandhu Avenue.
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