Funeral held for Bangladeshi university student killed while crossing Calgary road
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Funeral services were held Saturday for a 21-year-old University of Calgary student who was struck and killed while crossing the street on Sept. 14.
Funeral services were held Saturday for a 21-year-old University of Calgary student who was struck and killed while crossing the street on Sept. 14.
Fairooz Shafin Munmun, an international student from Bangladesh, was in her third year of computer sciences.
"She had lots of dreams, but it tragically ended up with something like this," Kois Chowdhury with the Bangladesh Canada Association of Calgary said.
"We want to honour her today."
Prayers were held at the Akram Jomaa Islamic Centre in the northeast.
"This is really a very sad moment for our whole community: the Muslim community, the Bangladeshi community, the University of Calgary," said Zubayer Siddiquee, the centre's director.
"This is unbearable."
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