Ex-Gazipur mayor Mannan dies

MA Mannan, the first mayor of Gazipur City Corporation and a BNP vice-chairman, died at a city hospital on Thursday. He was 72, reports UNB.
Mannan, also a former state minister for religious affairs, died at a city hospital around 4:30pm, his son Monjurul Karim Rony said.
The former Gazipur mayor was put on life support after he had been admitted to the hospital in a critical condition on Wednesday night, said BNP chairperson's media wing member Sayrul Kabir Khan.
He said Mannan had been suffering from various diseases, including high blood pressure and diabetes, since he was sent to jail in 2015.
On February 11, 2015, police arrested Mannan from his Baridhara residence in the capital in a case filed for allegedly hurling petrol bombs on a passenger bus in Gazipur.