The body of veteran journalist, columnist, and writer Abdul Gaffar Chowdhury will reach Dhaka on May 26.
Then, he will be buried beside his wife at the Martyred Intellectuals' Graveyard at Mirpur in the capital, sources in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs said on Saturday.
Earlier, he died while undergoing treatment at a hospital in London on Thursday.
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