Missionary back in Bangladesh

Dhaka – Bangladesh yesterday repatriated the remains of a Catholic priest who died in Italy last year but asked to be buried in the Muslim-majority country where he spent most of his life.

Father Marino Rigon will be interred at a village south of Mongla, where the missionary first settled in the early 1950s.

Rigon had been bestowed citizenship and decorated with war honours for treating wounded freedom fighters during the 1971 independence war. –