DHAKA: Novera Ahmed, one of the sculptors of Central Shaheed Minar, died at 85 at a hospital in Paris Wednesday night.
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina expressed profound shock at her demise and prayed for her departed soul.
PM’s Press Secretary AKM Shameem Chowdhuri confirmed the matter to media.
The sculptor born in 1930 in Kolkata of West Bengal.
She also started to establish Central Shaheed Minar along with another sculptor Hamidur Rahman in 1967.
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