Hasan Arefin, managing editor of the daily Natun Kagoj and an executive committee member of Jatiya Press Club, died of a cardiac arrest at a city hospital yesterday morning. He was 60. His son Md Ferozul Ferdous told BSS that his father breathed last at Shaheed Suhrawardy hospital in the capital at about 9 am soon after he was taken there from his Mirpur residence with severe chest pain.

He left behind wife, one daughter and one son, a host of colleagues, friends, relatives and admirers to mourn his death. He was the founding President of Dhaka-based Patuakhali Journalists Forum (PJF), former organising secretary of Dhaka Reporters’ Unity (DRU).