bdnews24.com :
Bir Pratik Akhtar Ahmed has passed away. He died in Dhaka’s Combined Military Hospital (CMH) in the early hours of Tuesday. He waas 70.
Dr Akhtar Ahmed was among the central figures who set up ‘Bangladesh Hospital’, a temporary medical centre at Agartala’s Motinagar as the Liberation War raged in 1971. A military doctor, he treated freedom fighters
and also took part in direct battle.
Captain Akhtar had successfully led a company of soldiers during the war, Sector 2 Commander Khaled Mosharraf had later said in an interview. His son Tanim Ahmed said his father had been suffering from diabetes and heart ailments. He felt a chest pain and was taken to the CMH from his home at Banani DOHS. He died there at around 3am.
His namaz-e-janaza will be held after Asr prayers at the Cantonment Central Mosque. The freedom fighter will then be buried at the Banani Military Graveyard.
Bir Pratik Akhtar Ahmed has passed away. He died in Dhaka’s Combined Military Hospital (CMH) in the early hours of Tuesday. He waas 70.
Dr Akhtar Ahmed was among the central figures who set up ‘Bangladesh Hospital’, a temporary medical centre at Agartala’s Motinagar as the Liberation War raged in 1971. A military doctor, he treated freedom fighters
and also took part in direct battle.
Captain Akhtar had successfully led a company of soldiers during the war, Sector 2 Commander Khaled Mosharraf had later said in an interview. His son Tanim Ahmed said his father had been suffering from diabetes and heart ailments. He felt a chest pain and was taken to the CMH from his home at Banani DOHS. He died there at around 3am.
His namaz-e-janaza will be held after Asr prayers at the Cantonment Central Mosque. The freedom fighter will then be buried at the Banani Military Graveyard.
