Naseema Chowdhury, the wife of the late Masum Ahmed Chowdhury, who was a former ambassador, has passed away in the United States at the age of 71.
She died at the Johns Hopkins Hospital in Maryland at 6am on Thursday, her nephew Monsur Ahmed Chaudhury said.
Naseema Chowdhury had been suffering from complications following a lung transplant.
She leaves behind her two sons, daughters-in-law and three grandchildren.
Naseema was buried at a graveyard in the state after Jummah prayers on Friday.