Kazi Mamunul Haq, economic editor of the now defunct the Bangladesh Observer, passed away at his Shantinagar residence in the capital on Tuesday night.

He was 72, reports UNB.

    Haq breathed his last at 10:30 pm after sufferings from different old age complications.

He left behind two daughters and a son and a host of relatives and admirers to mourn his death.

The body of the veteran journalist is being taken to his ancestral home in Feni where he will be laid to eternal rest following a namaz-e-janaza after Zohr prayers.

Haq, also worked in Weekly Holiday, The Independent and The New Nation, was a permanent member of the National Press Club.

His daughter Kazi Farzana Haque, also a journalist by profession, has been working in the country’s leading news agency United News of Bangladesh (UNB) as a joint news editor.