Live Correspondent: BNP vice-chairman and former mayor of undivided Dhaka City Corporation Sadeque Hossain Khoka died of cancer while undergoing treatment at a hospital in New York, USA today. He was 67. He is survived by his wife, a daughter and a son.

Khoka, who was suffering from kidney ailment and lung cancer for long,
breathed his last at 1:50pm (BDT) today at a Manhattan hospital in New York,
BNP chairperson’s media wing member Sairul Islam told BSS over telephone.

A former minister and lawmaker from Dhaka couple of times, a valiant freedom fighter Khoka, went to USA for cancer treatment in 2014. BNP Secretary General Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir expressed profound shock
at the death of Khoka.

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