The body of Zayan Chowdhury has been taken to his grandfather Sheikh Fazlul Karim Selim’s Banani residence.
The body was taken to the senior Awami League leader’s residence around 1.30pm on Wednesday (Apr 24) from Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport.
Home Minister Asaduzzaman Khan Kamal, senior AL leader Tofail Ahmed and the ruling party’s acting General Secretary Mahbubul Alam Hanif were present there.
The flight carrying Zayan landed at the airport around 12.40pm on Wednesday (Apr 24).
Former minister Tofail Ahmed said that the grief of the untimely death of a child was too much to take.
“I’m heartbroken. I don’t know how to deal with this,” he said.
Along with the party leaders, Speaker Shirin Sharmin Chaudhury, Foreign Minister Minister AKM Abdul Momen, AL lawmaker Pankaj Debnath, the party’s Joint General Secretary Jahangir Kabir Nanak, the party’s Organizing Secretary BM Mozammel Haque, opposition leader Roushon Ershad, DNCC mayor Atikul Islam were present at Sheikh Selim’s residence.
At least 359 people were killed and over 500 injured in bomb blasts that ripped through churches and luxury hotels in Colombo on Easter Sunday (Apr 21), the first major attack on the Indian Ocean island since the end of a civil war a decade ago.
Zayan, one of the two sons of Sheikh Selim’s daughter Sheikh Amena Sultana Sonia, died in an explosion in the hotel where the family was staying.
His father Mashiul Haque Chowdhury Prince was also injured in the blast and now being treated at a local hospital in critical condition.
The eight-year-old was having breakfast with his father at a restaurant on the ground floor of the hotel in Colombo that came under attack along with several other hotels and churches during Easter Sunday celebrations.
Zayan’s younger brother Zohan Chowdhary and mother Sheikh Amina Sultana Sonia were in their hotel room during the blast. The family went to Sri Lanka on a vacation.