Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) has arrested a man in connection with the death of renowned small-screen Bangladeshi actress Humaira Himu. The man was arrested from Bangshal area in the capital on Friday (November 3, 2023).
The arrestee was identified as Mohammad Ziauddin Alias Rufi.
ASP Imran Khan of RAB Headquarters (Media Wing) confirmed the matter to the media. He said that further details relating to the arrest will be disclosed later.
Humaira Himu passed away at her residence in Dhaka city on Thursday (November 2, 2023). She was declared dead at Bangladesh Medical College Hospital at Uttara in the city in the afternoon of that day.
She was brought to the hospital upon inspection. Later, the on-duty doctor of the hospital pronounced her dead.
Death of the popular actress has created a mystery. Some said that she has committed suicide while, some others said that it is a murder. However, this issue couldn’t be clarified at the time of this report being written.
Humaira Nusrat Himu has been acting for more than two decades. She started her acting career with theater in 2006. She began acting on television with the series ‘Chayabithi’.
Later, she proved her acting abilities in popular TV series namely ‘Bari Bari Sari Sari’, ‘Housefull’, ‘Gulshan Avenue’, ‘Sonaghat’, ‘Chairman Bari’, ‘Batighar’, and ‘Shonena Sey Shonena’.
However, she got widely acclaimed and brought to fame with her first film Morshedul Islam directorial ‘Amar Bondhu Rashed’. Later she concentrated more on television.
Humaira Nusrat Himu was born in Lakshmipur on November 23 in 1985. She spent her childhood in Lakshmipur and started working on stage theatre since she was a student of class two. However, she moved to Dhaka after her SSC exams in 1999. At first she joined Nagorik Natyangan and she worked with several other theater groups afterwards.
