News desk: A smart contingent of Bangladesh Police presented Guard of Honour to war heroine and writer Roma Chowdhury at the Chittagong Central Shaheed Minar today.
People from all walks of life thronged Chittagong Central Shaheed Minar and Cheragi Intersection to pay homage to the war heroine, placing floral wreaths on her coffin.
Roma Chowdhury, and also one of Biranganas of the Liberation War, has breathed her last at Chattogram Medical College Hospital (CMCH) at 4.40am. She was 79.
Relative sources said, Roma had been sufferings from diabetes, high blood pressure and Asthma for long and was undergoing treatment at CMCH since January last.
Roma Chowdhury left a son Jaharlal Chowdhury and a host of well wishers to mourn her death.
Reportedly, she authored 18 books including “Ekattarer Jononi’, ‘Ek Hazar Ek Din Japoner Poddo’ and ‘Bhab Boichitre Rabindranath’.
