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Hajj pilgrim dies at Ctg airport

Saturday, 13 September 2014


A Hajj pilgrim died from illness at Hazrat Shah Amanat (RA) International Airport in Chittagong city on Friday night. The deceased was identified as Mohammad Yunus, 62, a resident of Nazirpara of the city’s Dakkhin Patenga. Sources at the airport said Yunus, along with his wife, was to board a flight of Biman Bangladesh Airlines, scheduled to take off at 3:15am, to go to Saudi Arabia to perform Hajj. All of a sudden, he fell ill around 1:00am at the immigration lounge and later died, according to a news agency.