On Sunday 7:25pm Attorney General Mahbubey Alam has died from coronavirus while undergoing treatment at Combined Military Hospital (CMH), Dhaka. He aged 71.

His son Sumon Mahbub confirmed this in a facebook post.

At the death of Mahbubey Alam President M Abdul Hamid and Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina have expressed their deep shock and sorrow.

Mahbubey Alam was put into Intensive Care Unit (ICU) at CMH on September 18 after his physical condition deteriorated.

Earlier on September 4, he got admitted to the hospital with coronavirus positive and various old age complications.

In 1975 he joined The Supreme Courts senior lawyer.

He was additional attorney general from November 15, 1998 to October 4, 2001.

The country's 13th attorney general left behind his wife, a son and a daugher as well as well wishers to mourn.