CHITTAGONG, Aug 20 — Tens of thousands of people on Thursday attended the funeral of the firebrand leader of Bangladesh’s hardline Islamist outfit just hours after he died in the port city of Chittagong, police said.
“Between 70,000 and 80,000 people attended his funeral prayers,” held late Thursday on the grounds of the madrassa where he taught, Chittagong’s deputy chief of police, Afruzul Haque Tutul, told AFP. Babunagari, who was believed to be about 70, died after being rushed to a hospital in Chittagong, the country’s second-largest city, Hefazat spokesman Meer Idris told AFP.Bangladesh Home Minister Asaduzzaman Khan offered his condolences.
Babunagari rose from obscurity into the spotlight in 2012 when he became the deputy chief of Hefazat. He was known as being a hardliner within the fundamentalist group.
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