Anwara Begum, wife of deputy speaker, passes away

Anwara Begum, the wife of Deputy Speaker Fazle Rabbi Miah, has died during treatment at the age of 67.

She breathed her last at 10:40 am on Tuesday at the Combined Military Hospital in Dhaka, said the deputy speaker's aide Swapan Kumar Biswas, reports bdnews24.com.

Anwara, who had been suffering from old-age complications for a while, died from a heart ailment, he said.

Anwara Begum will be laid to rest at the deputy speaker's ancestral home in Saghata upazila of Gaibandha district.