Saifuddin Ahmed Manik dies at 69

Saifuddin Ahmed Manik, former communist leader and a political veteran of four decades, died of lung cancer at 10:50am Sunday at Comfort Hospital in the city. General secretary of Gano Forum, former general secretary of the Communist Party of Bangladesh and an Independence War leader , Manik was 69. His body was taken to his residence at Gopibagh from the hospital at noon, where hundreds of people flocked to pay their last respects.