Hefazat Chief Babunagari Is No More

Junaid Babunagari, the central Ameer of Hefazat-e-Islam, has as passed away today (Inna Lillahi wa Inna Ilahi Raziun). He was 66.

He died at the private hospital CSTR in Chattogram on Thursday (August 19).

Hefazat's central organizing secretary Mir Idris Nadvi confirmed the information, saying Babunagari was taken to the hospital from Hathazari Madrasa in the morning after falling ill at night.

Junaid Babunagari was around seventy years old. He was suffering from various physical complications including heart disease. He had been hospitalized several times before.