Acting Jatiya Party President GM Quader has confirmed that his brother Hussain Muhammad Ershad will be laid to rest at the army graveyard in Dhaka, following his funeral prayers in Rangpur.
Quader confirmed the matter to the media before flying off to Rangpur with the mortal remains of 90-year-old deposed military dictator on an Air Force helicopter around 10:30am on Tuesday.
Ershad, who had been on life support for the last 10 days, breathed his last at the Combined Military Hospital in Dhaka around 7:45am on Sunday. He has been suffering from myelodysplastic syndrome or a low-level of haemoglobin in his blood for long.
