Dhaka, April 25 -- Chief Advisor Muhammad Yunus has flown to the Vatican from Qatar to attend the funeral of Pope Francis.

A flight carrying the chief advisor took off from the Hamad International Airport in Doha at 9:25am local time on Friday (12:25pm Bangladesh time) as Qatar Protocol Department chief Ibrahim Yousif Abdullah Fakhro saw him off.

Yunus's Deputy Press Secretary Abul Kalam Azad Majumder told state-run Bangladesh Sangbad Sangstha (BSS) that the chief advisor is expected to arrive in Rome at 2:15pm Italian time.

He will be received by the ambassador of Bangladesh to Italy and the ambassador of Bangladesh to the Vatican, BSS reported.

An hour after arriving in Italy, Yunus will go to St Peter's Square and pay his respect t...