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PM mourns death of educationist Niloufer Manzur
DHAKA, May 26, 2020 (BSS) – Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina today expressed deep shock and sorrow at the death of renowned educationist and founding principal of Sunbeams School Niloufer Manzur.
In a condolence message, the prime minister prayed for eternal peace of the departed soul and conveyed profound sympathy to the bereaved family.
Niloufer, wife of Syed Manzur Elahi, a noted businessman and former adviser to a caretaker government, passed away earlier today (May 26) at the Combined Military Hospital (CMH) in Dhaka at the age of 74.
The daughter of late Dr Mafiz Ali Chowdhury, a former minister in Father of the Nation Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman’s cabinet in 1972, Niloufer Manzur founded Sunbeams School in January of 1974.
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