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Journalist Belal buried in Khulna

Nizami, Mujahid join burial

STAFF CORRESPONDENT, Khulna
Slain journalist Shaikh Belal Uddin was buried yesterday at his ancestral graveyard in village Royermahal under Khalishpur upazila in Khulna.
Several thousand people took part in his namaj-e-janaza held at Khulna Circuit House ground and at the deceased's village home.
Industries Minister Matiur Rahman Nizami and Social Welfare Minister Ali Ahsan Muhammad Mujahid also attended the janaza and burial.
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Journalists paid tributes to Belal, who was the Khulna Bureau Chief of the daily Sangram, when the body was kept for some time at Khulna Press Club.
Earlier, the body of Belal, who died on Friday in Dhaka, six days after a bomb attack in Khulna that injured him and three other journalists, was flown to Khulna in the morning by an air force helicopter.
The social welfare minister, Belal's wife and other relatives accompanied the body, which was later taken to Royermahal village.
The two ministers of the coalition government, both from Jamaat-e-Islami, went to the village to express their sympathies to the bereaved family.
The coffin was then brought to Khulna Press Club (KPC) where the social welfare minister placed wreath on behalf of Prime Minister Khaleda Zia.
Journalists' unions, KPC, political parties and socio-cultural bodies, high officials of local police and administration also placed wreaths on the coffin.
The industries minister, mayor of Khulna, politicians and journalists, along with several thousand people attended the janaza at Circuit House ground.
Moulana Nizami conducted the prayer after the janaza.
The Metropolitan Union of Journalists (MUJ), Khulna will hold a Qurankhwani and a milad mahfil on Monday for the salvation of the departed soul of Belal, who was president of MUJ.
The KPC, as part of its three-day mourning programme, will bring out a mourning procession and hold condolence meeting today.
The KPC members have been wearing black badges since Friday while black flags were hoisted at the press club and local newspaper offices.