Former home minister Sahara Khatun passed away

CNI Desk: Awami League (AL) Presidium Member and former Home Minister Advocate Sahara Khatun passed away. She was 72.

She breathed her last at the Bumrungrad International Hospital in Thailand while she was undergoing treatment there. She had been suffering from various old-age related complications.

President Abdul Hamid and Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina expressed deep shock and condolence at the death of Sahara Khatun,

Sahara Khatun was taken to Thailand on Monday (July 6) for better treatment.

An aircraft carrying her departed from Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport (HSIA) in city around 1.15 pm. Her personal assistant secretary Advocate Anisur Rahman is accompanying the AL leader.

On June 2, she had been admitted to the United Hospital in city’s Gulshan area with allergy, fever and old related complications and later she was shifted to the ICU on June 19 after her condition deteriorated.

The lawmaker of Dhaka-18 constituency was released from city’s United Hospital around 11.20 am on July 6.