US-Bangla plane crash survivor Kabir Hossain's right leg was amputated on Monday night at a hospital in Singapore he was flown to on Sunday.

The leg was severely infected and the doctors of Singapore General Hospital had to amputate it from the knee down, Samanta Lal Sen, national coordinator of Dhaka Medical College and Hospital's (DMCH) burn unit, told The Daily Star yesterday.

Hours after Kabir was brought back to Dhaka from a hospital in Kathmandu on March 19, his condition gradually deteriorated. He was kept on life support at the DMCH burn unit until Friday night.

On March 24, Samanta Lal, also chief of a 14-member board formed for the plane crash survivors, told reporters at DMCH that amputation may be necessary as the board found his right leg severely infected.

At least 50 people were killed in the March 12 crash at the Tribhuvan International Airport in Nepal. Of the dead, 27 are Bangladeshis and 22 are Nepalese.