State Minister for Religious Affairs Alhaj Advocate Sheikh Md Abdullah passed away on Saturday at Combined Military Hospital (CMH) in the capital at the age of 74, reports BSS.
“He breathed his last at 11.45 pm (on Saturday)at CMH,” a personal aide to the state minister told BSS.
Abdullah’s assistant private secretary (APS) Sheikh Nazmul Haque Shaikat briefly added that he died of old age complications.
Abdullah was Awami League’s religious affairs secretary as well, while he hailed from Gopalganj, the ancestral home district of Father of the Nation Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman.
Sheikh Abdullah will be buried at his family graveyard at his family graveyard at Kekania village in Gopalganj sadar upazila
He will be laid to eternal rest next to his parents’ graves, family sources said.
President M Abdul Hamid and Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina expressed their deep shock at his demise while they prayed for eternal peace of the departed soul.
Both the President and the Premier conveyed as well deep sympathy to the bereaved family members.
