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DHAKA, April 27: Veteran Bangladeshi politician and Awami League presidium member Abdus Samad Azad died on Wednesday in Dhaka. Samad Azad, who was foreign minister in Sheikh Hasina’s cabinet between 19996 and 2001, was 79 and had been suffering from stomach cancer.
President Iajuddin Ahmed, Prime Minister Khaleda Zia and Awami League president Sheikh Hasina have expressed grief in separate condolence messages.
