Bangladeshi prime minister's husband dies
DHAKA, May 9 (Reuters) - Bangladeshi Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina was widowed on Saturday after her nuclear physicist husband died at a Dhaka hospital.
He had been suffering from heart and kidney disease.
"(Hasina's husband) Dr. M. A. Wazed Miah, former chairman of Bangladesh Atomic Energy Commission breathed his last at the Square Hospital at 1025 GMT," Hasina's press secretary Abul Kalam Azad told reporters.
Hasina was beside her husband's hospital bed when he died. Wazed, 70, had received treatment at Mount Elizabeth Hospital in Singapore last month.
He will be buried at his ancestral home at northern Rangpur after a funeral ceremony in Dhaka on Sunday. (Reporting by Nizam Ahmed; Editing by Louise Ireland)
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