Pilot Abid’s wife dies

Afsana Khanam, wife of pilot Abid Sultan who died in the US-Bangla aircraft crash at Kathmandu in Nepal, died on Friday morning.

She had been kept on life support at the National Institute of Neurosciences and Hospital since Sunday.

Afsana was admitted to the hospital following a brain hemorrhage.

‘Afsana died around 9:30am,’ the institute’s joint director Badrul Alam Mondal told New Age.

‘She was on ventilation to keep her alive,’ he said, adding, ‘her condition was deteriorating gradually’.

Abid Sultan, who sustained injuries in the plane crash, died at Norvic Hospital in Kathmandu a day after the incident.

At least 49 people including 26 Bangladeshis died as the aircraft, which was carrying 67 passengers — 32 from Bangladesh, 33 from Nepal and one each from China and the Maldives — crashed in Nepal on March 12.

News Courtesy: www.newagebd.net