Veteran Journalist Shahiduzzaman Khan, the executive editor and chief news editor of The Financial Express died at a hospital in the capital today. He was 71.

He breathed his last at Shyamoli's Bangladesh Specialised Hospital at 6:45 pm. He had been on life support for the last few days. The journalist was infected with Covid-19.

He was admitted to the hospital on May 7 after developing respiratory problems.

Khan will be laid to rest at Mirpur Martyred Intellectuals Graveyard.

He had been working with The Financial Express since its inception in 1993 as its executive editor and news editor.

Khan also served as the acting editor of The Financial Express for a certain period after the demise of its founding editor AHM Moazzem Hossain in August 2018.