OUR CORRESPONDENT, Shariatpur

The body of Nahida Sultana Bristy, the Bangladeshi PhD student brutally murdered in Florida last month, was laid to rest at her village home in Madaripur Sadar upazila yesterday.

After her namaz‑e‑janaza following Asr prayers, she was buried beside her grandparents in Char Gobindopur under Khoajpur union.

Earlier in the morning, Bristy’s parents and relatives received her body upon its arrival at Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport in Dhaka.

Bristy lived with her parents and elder brother in Mirpur before moving to the United States to pursue a PhD in chemical engineering at the University of South Florida last year. She and fellow Bangladeshi PhD student Zamil Ahamed Limon were reported missing on April 16.

Investigators later confirmed both had been murdered. Their bodies were subsequently recovered, and Limon’s roommate was arrested and charged with double murder. Limon’s body arrived in Dhaka on May 4.

Before Bristy’s funeral prayers, Sadar Upazila Nirbahi Officer Wadia Shabab told journalists Bangladesh had suffered an unimaginable loss. “Bristy was a PhD research

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