ATN News chief executive officer Ashfaque Munier, widely known as Mishuk Munier who was killed along with film director Tareque Masud and three others in a traffic accident in Manikganjk on Saturday, was laid to rest in the Banani Graveyard on Tuesday.
Others who died in the accident were the driver of the microbus that was carrying them and two assistants of Tareque's film production team.
The microbus became smashed as it collided head-on with a bus when the production team was coming back to Dhaka after selecting a shooting location for Tareque's film Kagajer Phul.
The date for the burial of Tareque Masud has, however, not been decided yet, the family said.
The mourners who gathered at the Banani Graveyard to bid farewell to Mishuk, demanded a thorough and acceptable investigation of the accident.
The body of Mishuk was carried from mortuary of Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujib Medical University about 1:00pm and was buried about 1:30pm.
Mishuk's elder brother Bhashan Munier embraced the deceased Mishuk, creating a heart-rending scene at the place. He was buried in the grave of his grandmother.
People from all walks of life such as film activists, litterateurs, journalists, relatives, fans and well-wishers gathered at the graveyard to pay their last respect.
The mayor of Dhaka, Sadeque Hossain Khoka, International Theatre Institute president Ramendu Majumder, Sammilita Sangskritik Jote president Nasiruddin Yousuff, film directors Morshedul Islam and Manzare Hasan Murad, ATN Bangla chief news editor JE Mamun and ATN News head of news Munni Shaha attended.
Mishuk's younger brother Asif Munier, told New Age that they would hold prayer sessions in Mishuk's house at Bananai on Tuesday evening.
Three namaz-e-janazas of the duo were held in three places — in front of the ATN News office, in the central mosque in Dhaka University and on the premises of the Film Development Corporation.
Munier is son of the martyred intellectual Munier Chowdhury. He also taught in the department of mass communications and journalism in Dhaka University.
He took charge of the ATN News in November 2010, having previously worked with the Real News, a Canada and US-based television news and documentary network.
Born in 1959, Mishuk had worked as a videographer for the British Broadcasting Corporation in different south-east Asian countries. He had worked as the head of news at the country's first private terrestrial television channel Ekushey Television.
Source : New Age
