Swechchasebak Dal president Shafiul Bari dies at 49

Shafiul Bari Babu

Jatiyatabadi Swechchasebak Dal president Shafiul Bari Babu died of cancer in a city hospital early Tuesday.

He was 49.

Swechchasebak Dal is a voluntary wing of Bangladesh Nationalist Party.

“He breathed his last at 4:00am at the hospital,” said BNP chairperson’s media wing member Sayrul Kabir Khan.

BNP acting chairman Tarique Rahman and BNP secretary general Mirza Fakhrul Islam expressed shock at the premature death of Shafiul Bari.

He left behind one son and one daughter and a host of well-wishers to mourn his death.

Swechchasebak Dal general secretary Abdul Quader Bhuiyan Jewel said Babu was shifted to Evercare Hospital from Anwar Khan Modern Hospital and moved to its intensive care unit (ICU) at 1:52am where he died at 4:00am.

BNP acting chairman Tarique Rahman and BNP secretary general Mirza Fakhrul Islam expressed shock at the premature death of Shafiul Bari.