MA Rouf Chy passes away

MA Rouf Chowdhury, chairman of Bangladesh Vegetable Oil Refiners and Vanaspati Manufacturers Association, died of cardiac arrest in London Monday night. He was around 60. Mostafa Kamal, vice chairman of the association, confirmed his death to The Daily Star over phone yesterday. Kamal said Chowdhury went to London a few days ago to celebrate Eid-ul-Fitr with his two sons and other family members. He fell sick there and was given life support in a London hospital, but he died Monday night, he said. Chowdhury was also a former director of the Federation of Bangladesh Chambers of Commerce and Industry (FBCCI). Helal Uddin, a director of FBCCI, said his body might arrive in Dhaka on Saturday morning. The federation will hold a namaj-e-janaza for him in front of its office at the capital's Motijheel Saturday noon, he added.
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