Kushtia, March 26 -- year-old Ayesha Siddika, a hafiza of the 18th Para of the Quran, died in the tragic bus accident at Daulatdia ferry ghat in Rajbari on Wednesday. She had boarded a Souhardya Paribahan bus from Kushtia's Kumar Khali counter with her family.

Ayesha went missing when the bus sank in the Padma River. Later, her body was recovered by a Fire Service diving team. On Thursday morning at 9am, she was buried beside her elder uncle in her family graveyard at Shomospur, Khoksa Upazila.

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Eyewitnesses said that Ayesha had been sitting with her mother, Lita Khatun, in the bus, while her father, Gias Uddin, along with her younger brother, Abul Kashem Safin, had disembarke...