A Bangladeshi man walks through a sanitisation tunnel placed at the residential area at Mirpur area by a volunteer group in Dhaka. – EPA pic, April 18, 2020.
TENS of thousands of people defied a nationwide coronavirus lockdown in Bangladesh today to attend the funeral of a top Islamic preacher, even as authorities battle a surge in virus cases. Police had agreed with the family of Jubayer Ahmad Ansari, that only 50 people would attend the funeral in the eastern town of Sarail because of the risk of spreading the disease.
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