New York correspondent
New York, Jul 21 The remains of popular contemporary writer Humayun Ahmed will arrive in Dhaka on Monday instead of Sunday, Dr Abdul Momen, the Bangladesh Ambassador to the UN said.
Humayun's family and his close relatives will accompany his dead body on an Emirates Airlines flight that will reach Dhaka on Monday, Momen told media around 4:30am (BDST) on Saturday.
He said the Bangladesh government had managed tickets for the writer's family members who would accompany him. "They'll leave for Dhaka at 11:20pm (local NY time) on Saturday with Humayun's coffin," he added.
On Friday, Zafar Iqbal, Humayun's brother, said that the family would head towards Bangladesh with the writer's remains on Saturday and reach Dhaka on Sunday.
The popular fiction writer's first janaza was held at the Jamaica Muslim Centre in New York after the juma prayers on Friday.
Humayun Ahmed died at 11:30pm Thursday (Bangladesh time) at Bellevue Hospital, New York, after a nine-month battle against cancer, bringing the curtains down on an illustrious career of nearly four decades. He was 64.
Wife Meher Afroz Shaon, younger brother Mohammad Zafar Iqbal, who is also an accomplished writer, and publisher Mazharul Islam were with Humayun when he died.
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