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| Bangladesh president dies in Singapore: officials |
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| March 20, 2013 02:53 PM |
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| In this Nov. 15, 2011 file photo, U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon, right, poses for photographs after receiving honorary doctorate from Bangladesh President Zillur Rahman, left, at the Dhaka University in Dhaka, Bangladesh. (AP Photo/Pavel Rahman, File) |
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DHAKA: Bangladesh President Zillur Rahman, a veteran ruling party politician named to the largely ceremonial post in 2009, died 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". The former deputy chief of the ruling Awami League party, the country's 19th president, leaves a son who is a lawmaker and two daughters. Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina and the parliament speaker, who has been discharging the day-to-day job of the president in Rahman's absence, sent their condolences. Rahman's wife Ivy Rahman, also a politician, died in August 2004 after she was critically injured in a grenade attack on an Awami League party rally that also killed 20 other people.
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| Story Summary |
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Bangladesh President Zillur Rahman, a veteran ruling party politician named to the largely ceremonial post in 2009, died Wednesday in a Singapore hospital, an embassy official said.
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".
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