Shawdesh desk:

Prime Minister and Awami League (AL) President Sheikh Hasina on Monday expressed profound shock and sorrow at the death of her party’s central executive committee member and former Sylhet City Corporation Mayor Badar Uddin Ahmed Kamran.

In a condolence message, the premier said, “Awami League leader Badar Uddin Ahmed Kamran will be remained alive in the mind of masses with his own works.”

She prayed for salvation of the departed soul and conveyed sympathy to the bereaved family.

The former Sylhet city mayor breathed his last at the Combined Military Hospital (CMH) in Dhaka at 3:00am today.

Kamran had been undergoing treatment at the hospital since June 7.

He was flown to the hospital from Sylhet as his health condition deteriorated.