 They have two sons Gulam Mohiuddin Latu and Baharuddin Khelon and Five daughters Fatema Begum (Ruby), Amena Begum (Baby), Nurun Nahar (Lily), Nurunnesa (Maya) and Lima Malek.On 17 October 1987, he died in Dhaka Shaheed Suhrawardy Hospital at the age of 73.After the assassination of Bangabandhu on 15 August 1975, Abdul Malek Ukil, then speaker of parliament dominated by the AL, said in London in September 1975, "The Pharaoh has fallen.