Gaffar Chy's body likely to arrive next week

The body of prominent writer and columnist Abdul Gaffar Chowdhury - best known for writing the lyrics of "Amar Bhaier Rokte Rangano" - is likely to arrive in Dhaka next week, reports BSS.

Bangladesh High Commissioner to the UK Saida Muna Tasneem said, "After the completion of required procedures, we will send his body to Dhaka on a Biman Bangladesh Airlines flight next week."

Now, the body of Gaffar Chowdhury has been preserved at the Barnet Hospital in London where he, 88, breathed his last on Thursday, according to a press release from Bangladesh High Commission in London received in Dhaka on Friday.