The Natore Press Club president, Hanif Ali Sheikh, died at 55 at Rajshshi Medical College Hospital in the early hours of Friday.
He had long been suffering from cardiovascular diseases and was admitted to Natore Modern Hospital Thursday evening with a cardiac arrest and was taken to RMCH later, where he died from a major stroke, his family said.
Survived by two wives, a son and two daughters, Hanif Ali Sheikh was also district unit general secretary of the ruling Awami League.
In his long career he had served as the editor of local daily Uttar Banga Barta, vice-chair of Bangladesh Red Crescent Society Natore unit, president of Ingit Theatre, a local cultural organisation, and as a former chairman of Satni union council.
His first namaz-e-janaza was held on the Natore Bar Association premises in the morning.
His body was sent to his village home at Satni after the second namaz-e-janaza at the Central Eidgah after jumma prayers and attended by state minister for home Shamsul Haq Tuku, Rajshahi mayor AHM Khairujjaman Liton, lawmakers, local leaders of AL and the Bangladesh Nationalist Party, among others.
He was buried at his family graveyard at village Satni.
Source : New Age
