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Senior journalist Amir Khasru passes away
Greenwatch Desk
Press
2026-10-10, 10:17pm
Senior journalist Amir Khasru, a former Bangladesh correspondent for Voice of America (VOA), died at a city hospital on Saturday. He was 64.
He breathed his last at around 7pm while undergoing treatment at Bangladesh Medical University in the capital, family sources said.
Khasru, who had long been suffering from kidney and liver complications, is survived by his wife, a son and a daughter.
He was a former executive editor of Weekly Budhbar and also worked as a diplomatic correspondent for the Daily Ittefaq, reports UNB.