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Senior journalist and former news editor of national news agency BSS Quamrul Islam Chowdhury died of liver ailments at Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujib Medical University (BSMMU) Hospital on Tuesday. He was 63.
“He breathed his last at 8:30pm,” a family member said.
Chowdhury is survived by wife, a son and a daughter.
A former general secretary of Jatiya Press Club earned his repute as a financial journalist as he made his debut in the Daily Sangbad while later he emerged as one of the country’s leading environmental journalists.
He served as the general secretary and president of Forum of Environmental Journalists and represented Bangladesh in several international conferences on environment and climate change at home and abroad.
The family sources said they would decide his burial plan later.
Chowdhury retired from Bangladesh Sangbad Sangstha (BSS) in December 2022.
In a message of condolence, chairman of the board of directors of Bangladesh Sangbad Sangstha (BSS) and former vice-chancellor of Dhaka University (DU) Prof AAMS Arefin Siddique said the contribution of Quamrul Islam Chowdhury to climate and disaster management as a journalist will remain as a glare example at home and aboard.
He also prayed for eternal peace of the departed sound and conveyed deep sympathy to the bereave family.
