Poet Ekhlashuddin Ahmed no more

Staff Correspondent: Prominent children’s literature writer and poet Ekhlashuddin Ahmed has died at the age of 74.

The poet breathed his last at the Square hospital in the capital early Wednesday while undergoing treatment.

He was suffering from bleeding in brain and hospitalized for long since. He was kept in Intensive Care Unit (ICU) for last five days as his condition was deteriorating gradually.

The Bangladesh government awarded him prestigious Ekushey Padak in 2000 for his contribution in children’s literature.


risingbd/Dec 24, 2014/Aminul