Police have recovered the body of veteran photo journalist Aftab Ahmed from his home in Dhaka. Rampura Police Station OC Kreepa Shindhu Bala told bdnews24.com that they recovered the body around 9am on Wednesday.“He used to live here alone. His son-in-law informed us about the incident. We suspect he was strangled to death,” he said. OC Bala said that Ahmed’s apartment appeared to have been ransacked.
It was not immediately known whether anything was missing, but the driver of his car, one Kabir is absconding, he said. Ahmed lived on the second floor of four storeyed building at 63 West Rampura.
His son Monowar Ahmed lives in Jessore while the daughter Afroza Ahmed lives in Gazipur with her husband. Neighbours said, the household-helper Nasima informed them when Ahmed was not opening the front-door of his apartment in the morning.
They then informed the daughter and son-in-law. Hailing from Rangpur and born on 23 Dec, 1935, Ahmed started working for the Daily Ittefaq in 1962.
He received the ‘Ekushey Padak’ award in 2006.
Ahmed has several books like Shadhinota Sangrame Bangali, Banglar Muktir Sangram-Sirajuddoula Theke Shekh Mujib, Amra Tomader Vulbona.
His camera captured some of the most poignant images of the 1971 Liberation War and Bangabandhu Sheikh Majibur Rahman.
One of his pictures, taken during the 1974 famine at Kurigram, features teenage girl Bashanti wearing a fish-net to cover her body to make for shortage of clothes.
It created quite a fuss. – bdnews24.com
