Lily Chowdhury laid to rest at Banani graveyard

Theatre activist Lily Chowdhury, also wife of martyred intellectual Munir Chowdhury, laid to rest  at Banani cemetery beside her son Mishuk Munir after Zuhr prayer on Tuesday, family sources said.

Earlier, her body was kept at her Banani residence till 10:30 am for

relatives, family and friends to bid her farewell. Later, her body was taken to Shaheed Minar premises for common people to pay homage to her, her son Asif Munir told BSS.

Lily Chowdhury passed away at the age of 93 at her Banani residence at 5.30 pm on Monday.

Her other son Mishuk Munir, a former Dhaka University Journalism teacher and cinematographer, died in a road accident along with filmmaker Tareque Masud in 2011.