Shafiul Alam Raza Taken from FacebookAfter arriving, the police broke down the door and found Shafiul deadJournalist and noted Bhawaiya singer Shafiul Alam Raja was buried at his family graveyard in the Bhottokhata village under the Ramna union council of the Chilmari upazila in Kurigram on Monday after Zuhr prayer. Earlier, the body of Shafiul reached the Kurigram Central Shaheed Minar from Dhaka in the morning where people from all walks of life flocked to pay their respects to Shafiul. Shafiul Alam Raza, 50, the chief correspondent for online news portal Priyo.com was found dead at his Pallabi residence on Sunday afternoon. Also Read- Journalist Shafiul Alam found dead at homeAccording to Nazrul Islam, officer-in-charge of the Pallabi police station, said Shafiul had a music school on the ground floor of a building in Pallabi, and a room for him to rest upstairs. He was also popularly known as a Bhawaiya singer, having sung on Bangladesh Betar and Bangladesh Television on multiple occasions.

Source: Dhaka Tribune March 18, 2019 14:26 UTC