Bangladesh Islamist leader and convicted war criminal Ghulam Azam passed away Thursday at the age of 91.
According to the BBC, Azam, who was convicted for his role in setting up militias that carried out atrocities during the 1971 Bangladesh war for independence died from a heart attack, a hospital spokesman in Dhaka said.
A court in Dhaka sentenced Azam to 90 years in prison last year after he was found guilty of orchestrating crimes against humanity during Bangladesh’s 1971 war of independence with Pakistan.
Earlier on Thursday, Azam’s son Abdullahel Azmi told AFP news agency that his father’s condition had deteriorated and that he was put on life support, the report said.
Abdul Majid Bhuiyan, director of the Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujib Medical University later told reporters that Azam died of cardiac arrest at 10.10pm the same day.
—ANI