Adv Sahara Khatun no more

Senior Awami League leader and former home minister Sahara Khatun has died at a Bangkok hospital. She was 77.

The MP from Dhaka-18 breathed her last at 11:25 pm (Bangladesh Time) on Thursday, said her aide Nazim Uddin Abir.

Sahara, a member of the Awami League’s presidium, was flown to Thailand and admitted to Bumrungrad Hospital last Monday.

On June 2, she was admitted to a hospital in Dhaka with a fever, allergy and other preexisting conditions and later moved to the intensive care unit when her condition deteriorated.

Sahara Khatun is a three-time MP from the Dhaka seat.

She was made the home minister in 2009 and later served as the post and telecommunication minister.