Solace for 2 Liberation War martyrs' families

Families of two Liberation War martyrs have got solace at long last, being able to offer prayers at their grave in Doshmile of Kaharol upazila under the district yesterday, more than 44 long years after their supreme sacrifice for the country.

The Pakistani forces killed Havilder Mia Hossain and Lance Nayek Mustafizur Rahman, posted in Dinajpur Sector under East Pakistan Rifles (EPR) during the Liberation War in 1971, during a fight on April 12 in 1971, said Sakhawat Hossain, one of his fellow freedom fighters.

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Mahbub Kabir, director of Board of Investment in Chittagong, who learned the story from Sakhawat, took initiative to help the families of the two martyrs identify their last mortal ruins, as the tombstone was showing they hailed from Gopalganj and Jhalakathi, although they were from Netrakona and Bhola districts respectively.

Receiving invitation from the upazila administration, Mustafizur's sister Safina Khatun and Hossain's wife Samsunnahar, son Shamsul Haq and daughter Sufia Khatun, came to Dinajpur and offered their prayers and attended a milad mahfil beside the grave yesterday afternoon, Kaharol Upazila Nirbahi Officer Rabiul Islam said.