Noted sculptor Ferdousi Priyabhashini passed away in a city hospital on Tuesday noon. She was 71.

Ferdousi Priyabhashini, who has been suffering from multiple complications including diabetes, high blood pressure and heart disease, and undergoing treatment at Labaid Hospital, breathed her last around 12:45pm, sources said.

Ferdousi Priyabhashini, persecuted by Pakistani occupation army and its local collaborators during the 1971 Liberation War, was recognised as freedom fighter in 2016.

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina expressed her deep shock and sorrow at the death of the war heroine.UNB

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