"The president died at a hospital here in Singapore at 6.47 pm local time," Bangladesh High Commissioner in Singapore M. Mahbubuzzaman told AFP by phone.[break]
Rahman, who was suffering from kidney and respiratory problems, was flown to Singapore´s Mount Elizabeth Hospital by air ambulance on February 10 after his condition worsened.
His secretary Shafiul Alam told AFP that Rahman, a close aide of the nation´s founding leader Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, had been suffering from "old age complications".
The former deputy chief of the ruling Awami League party, the country´s 19th president, leaves a son who is a lawmaker and two daughters.
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina and the parliament speaker, who has been discharging the day-to-day job of the president in Rahman´s absence, sent their condolences.
Rahman´s wife Ivy Rahman, also a politician, died in August 2004 after she was critically injured in a grenade attack on an Awami League party rally that also killed 20 other people.
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