Ex-MP Hajera Sultana dies

Hajera Sultana, former MP, freedom fighter and senior leader of the Workers Party of Bangladesh, died at the age of 76, reports bdnews24.com.
She passed away on Thursday night while receiving treatment at City Hospital in the capital's Mohammadpur, party officials said.
Hajera was a member of the party's politburo and is survived by her only daughter, who lives in Canada, and a son-in-law.
According to Workers Party central committee leader Mostafa Alamgir Ratan, her body will be kept at a private hospital mortuary before burial in her ancestral village in Tangail once her daughter returns to Bangladesh.
Born in 1950 in Chhatihati village in Tangail's Kalihati Upazila, Hajera became politically active while studying at Government Sa'adat College after completing her higher secondary education at Kumudini College.