Bangladesh president dies in Singapore
21 March, 2013
DHAKA: Bangladesh President Zillur Rahman, a veteran ruling party politician named to the largely ceremonial post in 2009, died on Wednesday in a Singapore hospital, an embassy official said. He was 84. "The president died at a hospital here in Singapore at 6.47 pm local time," Bangladesh High Commissioner in Singapore M Mahbubuzzaman told AFP by phone. Rahman, who was suffering from kidney and respiratory problems, was flown to Singapore's Mount Elizabeth Hospital by air ambulance on March 10 after his condition worsened. His secretary Shafiul Alam told AFP that Rahman, a close aide of the nation's founding leader Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, had been suffering from "old age complications". End.
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