KHULNA: Khulna University (KU) will observe the ‘Katka Tragedy Day’ tomorrow, reports BSS. On March 13 in 2004, nine students of Architecture Discipline of Khulna University and two students of the same discipline of Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology (BUET) drowned in the Bay of Bengal near Katka in the Sunderbans while they were taking bath during their picnic. To mark the day, KU authorities have chalked out daylong programme at the campus. The programme includes wearing of black badges, to pay tributes at ‘Katka Monument’ on the campus, commemoration meeting, mourning procession, Doa Mehfil, feeding of orphans with improved diet, candlelight vigil and to show pictures documentary.
The nine students are Arnaj Rifat Rupa, Md Mahmudur Rahman, Maksumul Aziz Mostaji, Abdullah-el-Baki, Kazi Mueed bin Wali, Kauser Ahmed Khan, Munadil Raihan bin Mahbub, Md Ashrafuzzaman and Md Touhidul Inam. Saimul and Shakil were the students of BUET who also met their tragic death in the same incident on the same day.
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