Prof Anisuzzaman’s daughter Shuchita Zaman passes away

Shuchita Zaman, the youngest daughter of National Professor Anisuzzaman, passed away this morning. She was 53.

She breathed her last at 6:07am while undergoing treatment at United Hospital in Dhaka. She had been suffering from thymic cancer, her family members said.

She is survived by a son and a daughter.

Shuchita was wife of Tasneem Sumon Haider Chowdhury, who was the eldest son of martyred intellectual Mufazzal Haider Chowdhury.

She was brought to the country yesterday afternoon from the Samitivej Sukhumvit Hospital in Bangkok.

Her namaz-e-janaza will be held at Azad Mosque in Gulshan after Juma prayers today. She will be buried beside her husband at Banani graveyard in the capital.