Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina is attending a memorial programme organised to remember the victims of the 21 August, 2004 grenade attack at Bangladesh Awami League Central Office in the capital's Bangabandhu Avenue on Sunday.
Sheikh Hasina, also the Awami League chief, reached the party's central office at around 10:30am today and placed a floral wreath at the altar built for the 21 August martyrs in front of the party's central office.
The programme started with a prayer seeking solace for the deadly grenade attack victims.
A discussion will be held at to recall the victims of the dreadful in memory of those killed in the August 21 grenade attacks.
Awami League General Secretary and Road Transport Minister Obaidul Quader called upon the leaders, activists, supporters and well-wishers of Awami League and its allies and fraternal organisations at all levels to observe the 'Grenade Attack Day' on August 21 with due dignity along with the countrymen following the health rules.
This year marks the 18th anniversary of the gruesome grenade attack. On this day in 2004 during the BNP-Jamaat coalition government, this unprecedented grenade attack was carried out on a peaceful anti-terror rally of the Awami League on Bangabandhu Avenue in the capital.
