International News Safety Institute

11 February 2005

Sheikh Belaluddin

Incident

Sheikh Belaluddin

Cause of death

Explosion

Details

Sheikh Belaluddin, a correspondent with daily Sangram newspaper, died of heart failure at the Combined Military Hospital in the capital Dhaka, said Lt. Col. Nazrul Islam.

Belaluddin and three other reporters were wounded in a Feb. 5 bomb explosion at a press club in Khulna, a city 135 kilometers (85 miles) southwest of Dhaka. No one claimed responsibility for the blast.

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