Bogura, Feb. 17 -- Freedom fighter and Awami League leader Momtaz Uddin passed away here early Sunday. He was 74.

Momtaz Uddin, district Awami League president and a member of the party's central committee, was admitted to Shaheed Ziaur Rahman Medical College Hospital at 9pm on Saturday after suffering a heart attack and breathed his last around 5 am on Sunday, said family sources.

His first namaj-e-janaza will be held at Altafunnesa ground after Zohr prayers and second one will be held at Manik Chak High School field in Sadar upazila.

Later, he will be buried at his family graveyard at Kodimpara village.

Published by HT Digital Content Services with permission from United News of Bangladesh....