STAFF CORRESPONDENT

A journalist died yesterday while covering the Dhaka University Central Students’ Union election at Curzon Hall on campus.

The deceased was identified as Tarikul Islam Shibli, 40, who worked as a city reporter for Channel S Television.

He fell ill while reporting on the Ducsu polls and was rushed to Dhaka Medical College Hospital, where doctors declared him dead.

Quoting duty doctors, Inspector Md Farouk, in-charge of DMCH Police outpost, said the journalist died of a cardiac failure. His body has been kept at the DMCH morgue for autopsy.

Shibly hailed from Etbarpur village under Cumilla’s Burichang upazila. He was residing in Uttara, along with his wife and two daughters, reports BSS.