Attorney General Mahbubey Alam died of COVID-19 while undergoing treatment at Combined Military Hospital (CMH) in the city this evening at the age of 71.
“My father breathed his last at 7.25 pm at the CMH here,” Mahbubey Alam’s son Sheikh Suman Mahbub told BSS.
Alam left behind his wife, a son, a daughter and a host relatives and admirers to mourn his death.
Earlier, he was admitted to the CMH with high temperature on September 4 and later tested positive for COVID-19.
On September 18, he was moved to the intensive care unit after his condition deteriorated during treatment.
Alam has been the attorney general of the country since 2009.
A former president of the Supreme Court Bar Association, Alam joined the legal profession in 1975.BSS