The first namaz-e-janaza of BNP leader and former mayor of undivided Dhaka City Corporation Sadeque Hossain Khoka has been held.
The janaza took place at Jamaica Muslim Center in New York at 8:30am on Tuesday (Bangladesh local time).
Khoka’s wife Ismat Ara, daughter Sarika Sadeque, sons Ishraque, Isfaque Hossain were present during this time.
The body of Sadeque Hossain Khoka is expected to arrive here from the USA on Thursday morning.
A flight of Emirates Airlines carrying Khoka’s body will leave John F Kennedy Airport at 11 pm (local time) today and reach Dhaka on Thursday morning.
Sadeque Hossain Khoka, 67, also a Freedom Fighter who had long been suffering from cancer, died at the Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center in New York around 1:50pm (BST) on Monday.
Khoka had been undergoing treatment at the hospital since October 18 for cancer with some other health complications.
He along with his wife went to the USA in 2014 for treatment while the validity of their passports expired in 2017.