Dhaka, Dec. 31 -- The body of BNP Chairperson and former Prime Minister Begum Khaleda Zia has been kept at Manik Mia Avenue where her namaz-e-janaza will be held at 2pm, with thousands of people in attendance.

Around 11:50am, a freezer-van wrapped in the red-and-green national flag, carrying the BNP chief's body arrived at the avenue from the Gulshan Avenue residence of her elder son Tarique Rahman.

The freezer-van left Tarique's residence amid tight security around 11:02am.

A multi-layer security has been taken in and around the Manik Mia Avenue to maintain the law and order as thousands of people have already thronged there.

Members of the army, police, RAB, BGB and other law-enforcement agencies have remained deployed.

After the j...