Dhaka: Shahan Ara Abdullah, wife of Barishal-1 constituency MP Abul Hasnat Abdullah and mother of Barishal City Corporation Mayor Serniabat Sadiq Abdullah passed away in a hospital in capital on Sunday night.
She was 72.
Shahan Ara, an eyewitness of the brutal killings on August 15, 1975, breathed her last at Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujib Medical University (BSMMU) at around 11:30pm.
The politician and cultural activist left behind her husband, three sons, a daughter and numerous well-wishers to mourn her death.
Shahan Ara was among those who survived the barbaric attacks by some disgruntled army officers on family and relatives of Father of the Nation Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman.
