DHAKA, March 20 (Xinhua) -- Bangladesh President Zillur Rahman died Wednesday at a Singapore hospital.

Mohammad Shafiul Alam, a secretary with the presidential office, confirmed the news to Xinhua, saying "the ailing president breathed his last at 4:47 p.m. (Bangladesh time) at the Mount Elizabeth Hospital in Singapore."

Rahman was flown to Singapore on March 10 night by an air ambulance and admitted to the Mount Elizabeth Hospital the following morning.

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