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Bangladesh to celebrate largest Muslim festival Thursday

Xinhua, July 6, 2016 Adjust font size:

Bangladesh Muslims will celebrate Eid-ul-Fitr that marks the end of the Islamic holy month of Ramadan on Thuersday as moon for Islamic month of Shaawal was sighted in the country on Wednesday.

Therefore, the Eid-ul-Fitr will be celebrated across the country on Thursdsy amid religious fervor and enthusiasm, ending the month-long fasting in the holy month of Ramadan.

After a month-long fasting, Muslims across the country will seek divine blessings, peace, progress and prosperity in Eid congregations. The main Eid congregation will be held in the capital Dhaka at 8:30 a.m. local time.

President Abdul Hamid, Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina and ex-Prime Minister Khaleda Zia conveyed Eid greetings to the countrymen in separate massages.

The government earlier announced a nine-day holiday starting from July 1 on the occasion of Eid-ul-Fitr.

The Dhaka City Corporation authority has almost completed ground work to prepare the main Eid congregation in Dhaka where the country's president, ministers and senior government officials will say Eid prayer with mass people.

The corporation authority has also completed preparation to hold hundreds of congregations in the city.

The national flag of the country will be hoisted atop government and non-government offices on the Eid day while most of the streets and road islands are being decorated with flags reading Eid Mubarak in Bangla and Arabic.

Special diets reportedly will be served in hospitals, jails, government-owned welfare centers and shelter homes for children, socially-handicapped people and the destitute.

Officials said additional forces will be deployed at all strategic points including commercial hubs and main Eid congregation grounds in major cities to shore up security on the day of Eid-ul-Fitr following an attack in a Spanish restaurant in Dhaka's diplomatic enclave Gulshan in which 20 civilians including 18 foreigners were killed last week. Endut