President, PM pay homage to martyred intellectuals

President Abdul Hamid and Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina paid rich tributes to the martyred intellectuals by placing wreaths at the Martyred Intellectuals’ Mausoleum at Mirpur in the city on Sunday morning. The President placed the wreaths at first around 8:00 am and the Prime Minister followed him to show their heartfelt homage to the great heroes, who sacrificed their lives for the cause of the country and the nation. Both the President and the Prime Minister stood in solemn silence there for some time as the bugle played the last post. The President and the Prime Minister talked to the war- wounded freedom fighters there and enquired about their wellbeing. Earlier, on his arrival at the mausoleum site, the President was received by Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina. Later, flanked by the senior AL leaders, Hasina placed another wreath at the Martyred Intellectuals’ Mausoleum as the AL chief. Pakistani occupation army aided by their local collaborators brutally killed the illustrious sons of the soil at the fag end of Bangladesh’s independence war on this day in 1971, according to a news agency.