Dhaka, Oct. 8 -- Former colleagues and members of the Bangladeshi community in London have gathered to pay their final respects to Toufique Imrose Khalidi, the late editor-in-chief of bdnews24.com and a pioneer of Bangladesh's digital news media.

His Janaza (funeral prayer) was held after Zuhr prayers at Brick Lane Jamme Masjid in East London.

His coffin was kept at the mosque from 10:30am to 1pm local time for well-wishers to pay their respects.

Khalidi worked for BBC World Service in London from 2000 to 2005. Former colleagues including Moazzem Hossain, Shakeel Anwar, Atikur Samad, Masud Hasan Khan and Uday Shankar Das, along with Bangladeshi journalists working for different British media outlets, attended.

Members of the Banglades...