27 June 2004
Humayun Kabir Balu
Explosion
Humayun Kabir Balu, president of the Khulna Press Club and editor of a local daily, the Janmabhumi, was killed in a bomb attack near the entrance of his newspaper office-cum-residence.
He was 57. His eldest son Asif Kabir, 25, editor of a local evening daily, Rajpather Dabi, was injured in the incident. Humayun Kabir Balu is the fifth newsman killed in Khulna district since 2001.
