A billboard featuring Bangladesh's late PM Khaleda Zia is displayed outside the barricaded Evercare Hospital in Dhaka on Tuesday
The Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) on Tuesday declared seven days of official mourning following the death of Zia, who served as the party's chairman
Zia was admitted to the capital Dhaka's Evercare Hospital on November 23 with a lung infection. She had been suffering from various physical ailments, including heart disease, diabetes, arthritis, liver cirrhosis, and kidney complications, for a long time, and earlier this month, she was sent to London for advanced medical treatment for her ailments
Chief Adviser of the interim government of Bangladesh, Muhammad Yunus, on Tuesday expressed his profound grief over the death of former Prime Minister and BNP Chairperson Begum Khaleda Zia, describing her as a "great guardian" of the nation and a towering figure in Bangladesh's democratic history
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