DHAKA: RAB intelligence wing chief Lt Col Abul Kalam Azad, who sustained severe injuries in Sylhet blasts during the anti-militancy drive, has been brought to Dhaka from Singapore with life-support.  

The air ambulance carrying Abul Kalam Azad landed at the Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport at about 8:15 pm on Wednesday (March 29).   

Assistant director of RAB’s legal and media wing Mizanur Rahman confirmed the matter to the Banglanews. 

He said that Abul Kalam Azad was brought to Dhaka with life-support following advice of the specialist physicians in Singapore. He will be treated in the Combined Military Hospital (CMH) in Dhaka. 

Earlier on March 26, the Army official was flown to Singapore by air ambulance for further treatment. 

Alongside others, Abul Kalam Azad and another RAB official also received severe wound in March 25 bomb blasts that took place on a road near the ‘Atia Mahal’ at Daksin Surma upazila in Sylhet. 

The two RAB officials had been admitted to the Sylhet MAG Osmani Medical College Hospital (OMCH). Later, Abul Kalam Azad was shifted to the CMH by helicopter in midnight following deterioration of his condition. Later, he was sent to Singapore. 

BDST: 2102 HRS, MAR 29, 2017
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