Ex-Bangladesh Finance Minister dies

BANGLADESH: A former Bangladeshi finance minister credited with setting the impoverished country on the path to economic reform died Saturday in a car accident, police said.

M. Saifur Rahman, the second-highest official of the opposition Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP), was travelling to the capital Dhaka when his car spun out of control and veered into a ditch, police said.

“He was pulled out unconscious from the car crash and was declared dead after being rushed to a hospital,” police superintendent Mukhlesur Rahman told AFP.

The 77-year-old politician was Bangladesh’s longest-serving finance minister.

AFP