Injured in Sylhet: Rab official Azad dies
Rab Intelligence Wing Director Lt Col Abul Kalam Azad, who was hit by splinters in a blast near a militant den in Sylhet city on March 25, died at the Combined Military Hospital in Dhaka in the early hours of today.
He breathed his last at 12:05am, Maj Roysul Azam, deputy director of Rab's Legal and Media Wing, told The Daily Star.
Earlier on Wednesday night, Azad was flown back to Dhaka on life support from a Singapore hospital where he had been taken on Sunday for better treatment.
Doctors at Mount Elizabeth Hospitals Singapore found him unfit to be operated on.
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Azad had been kept at the CMH since he was brought back.
Splinters had pierced through one of his eyes and hit his brain, Azad's younger brother Yusuf Ahsan Hemel told this newspaper on Wednesday.
Azad left behind his wife, two sons and a daughter.
With his demise, the death toll in the twin blasts near the militant den at Sylhet's Atia Mahal rose to seven.
The explosion in which he was hit took place around an hour after a bomb went off around 7:00pm, about 400 metres north of Atia Mahal in Shibbari area where militants were holed up since March 24.
The two blasts left two police officials and four civilians dead and 44 others injured. Four militants were later killed in the operation led by Army commandos.
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Azad was born on October 30, 1975, in Chapainawabganj.
He got admitted to the Economics department at Dhaka University, but left for a life in the army, according to Rab officials.
He was commissioned in East Bengal Regiment on June 7, 1996, following the 34th Bangladesh Military Academy (BMA) long course.
Azad served in several key posts in East Bengal Regiment-6, including that of IO, adjutant and quarter master, the officials said.
He later worked at the administration department of the army headquarters, Para Commando Battalion-1, and Support Battalion in East Bengal Regiment-19. He was a commando.
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Azad served as the company commander of Rab-12 from October 26 to December 30, 2011.
After that, he became a deputy director of intelligence wing (TFI Cell) in Rab headquarters and served there until December 7, 2013.
Azad was then promoted to director. He served in Rab for five years.
He was awarded Bangladesh Police Medal (service) in 2016.
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