STAFF CORRESPONDENT

Mohammad

Selim, a

former

office

assistant

of The

Daily Star,

passed away at a hospital in Lakshmipur on Saturday. He was 63.

He is survived by his mother, siblings, and a host of relatives and well-wishers to mourn his death.

According to his Daily Star colleague Mohammad Yusuf, Selim suffered a brain stroke at his home in Lakshmipur around 6:00am on Saturday. He was immediately taken to a local hospital, where he breathed his last around 7:00pm the same day.

His namaz-e-janaza was held yesterday morning at his village, Palpara. He was later buried at his family graveyard at Palpara at 10:30am.