Daughter dies while mayor on flight to Bangkok
Saturday, 18 October 2008
CHITTAGONG, October 17 (bdnews24.com): Fawzia Sultana Tumpa, daughter of Chittagong City Corporation (CCC) Mayor ABM Mohiuddin Chowdhury, died in Bangkok Friday afternoon while her parents were on a flight to Thailand to see her, his family said.
"Her life support machine was taken off at around 3.30pm our time," the mayor's nephew, Mesbahuddin Chowdhury Nobel, told reporters.
The mayor had just left for Bangkok Friday afternoon to see his ailing daughter, already declared clinically dead by doctors.
Tumpa, studying in English department at the Premier University, Chittagong, was under treatment at a Bangkok hospital for cancer.
Nobel told reporters that a few minutes before Mohiuddin's flight left, news had arrived that Tumpa had been put on a life support machine.
"Just before the Bangkok flight left, uncle Mohiuddin received news that Tumpa had been clinically dead and put on a life-support system," said Nobel.
"A totally shattered soul, he still asked Bangkok to keep Tumpa on the life-support system and left."
The Thai Airways flight carrying the mayor left Shah Amanat International Airport at around 2:30pm, said the mayor's lawyer Ibrahim Hossain Babul to the news agency.
Wife Hasina Mohiuddin and son Noufel accompanied Mohiuddin.
Awami League leader Mohiuddin Chowdhury was released on October 8 after being bailed in all the 15 cases against him. He had been detained for a year and seven months.
Following a formal petition, the government gave him permission on October 15 to go abroad.
"I'm going to Bangkok. I don't know if I'll be able to see my daughter alive," Mohiuddin told reporters before departure.
Calling upon the government to release all political leaders, Mohiuddin said, "Nothing can be gained by persecuting the politicians."
"I've instructed the Chittagong City Corporation councillors to discharge their responsibilities duly, though I heard that a lot of irregularities had occurred at the CCC while I was away."
"Her life support machine was taken off at around 3.30pm our time," the mayor's nephew, Mesbahuddin Chowdhury Nobel, told reporters.
The mayor had just left for Bangkok Friday afternoon to see his ailing daughter, already declared clinically dead by doctors.
Tumpa, studying in English department at the Premier University, Chittagong, was under treatment at a Bangkok hospital for cancer.
Nobel told reporters that a few minutes before Mohiuddin's flight left, news had arrived that Tumpa had been put on a life support machine.
"Just before the Bangkok flight left, uncle Mohiuddin received news that Tumpa had been clinically dead and put on a life-support system," said Nobel.
"A totally shattered soul, he still asked Bangkok to keep Tumpa on the life-support system and left."
The Thai Airways flight carrying the mayor left Shah Amanat International Airport at around 2:30pm, said the mayor's lawyer Ibrahim Hossain Babul to the news agency.
Wife Hasina Mohiuddin and son Noufel accompanied Mohiuddin.
Awami League leader Mohiuddin Chowdhury was released on October 8 after being bailed in all the 15 cases against him. He had been detained for a year and seven months.
Following a formal petition, the government gave him permission on October 15 to go abroad.
"I'm going to Bangkok. I don't know if I'll be able to see my daughter alive," Mohiuddin told reporters before departure.
Calling upon the government to release all political leaders, Mohiuddin said, "Nothing can be gained by persecuting the politicians."
"I've instructed the Chittagong City Corporation councillors to discharge their responsibilities duly, though I heard that a lot of irregularities had occurred at the CCC while I was away."