Bangladeshi prime minister's husband dies
DHAKA (Reuters) - The nuclear physicist husband of Bangladeshi Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina died on Saturday at a Dhaka hospital.
The 70-year-old had been suffering from heart and kidney disease.
"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 with her husband when he died. Wazed received treatment in Singapore last month.
He will be buried at his ancestral home in northern Rangpur after a funeral ceremony in Dhaka on Sunday.
The leader of the opposition, former prime minister Begum Khaleda Zia, expressed her condolences.
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