Walton’s founding chairman Nazrul Islam dies

SM Nazrul Islam, the founding chairman of country’s leading company Walton Group, died on Sunday. He was 93.

Nazrul breathed his last at the Apollo Hospitals Dhaka in the city around 9:40pm.

He was the pioneer of the country's electrical and electronics production industry.

The first namaz-e-janaza of Nazrul Islam will be held at the corporate office of Walton Group at Bashundhara residential area in the capital at 10:50am on Monday.

The second funeral prayer will be held at Walton Factory at Chandra of Kaliakair in Gazipur at 11:30am.

He will be laid to eternal rest at his family graveyard of Tangail's Gosaijoair after asr prayers following the third namaz-e-janaza.

SM Nazrul is survived by wife, five sons and two daughters.

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