Journalist Biplab Zaman found dead at Dhaka home

Journalist Biplab Zaman found dead at Dhaka home

Former senior sub editor of Just News and the Financial Express news consultant Biplab Zaman was found dead at his rented home at Pallabi in Bangladesh capital Dhaka on Saturday evening.

Dhaka Metropolitan Police’s Pallabi zone additional deputy commissioner Nazmul Ahsan Firoz said that they recovered the decomposed body of 60-year-old Biplab Zaman from his rented house on a fourth floor apartment of section 11 of Pallab.

Locals, smelling bad odour from the apartment informed the matter to police, he said.

He said that they broke open the door of the apartment and found the body.

The journalist used to live in the apartment alone, the police officer said and added that they were sending the body to hospital for post mortem examination.

He said that they were not sure how the journalist died.

Biplab Zaman’s colleague said that he did not come to office for about a week and his mobile phone was found switched off.