Ex-lawmaker and BNP leader Nasir Uddin Ahmed Pintu died on Sunday noon (Inna lillahi wa inna ilayhi raji`un).

He suffered a cardiac arrest at Rajshahi Jail around 12.12pm, and he was immediately taken to Rajshahi Medical College Hospital but the duty doctors declared him dead.


Pintu was serving life-term for carnage at Pilkhana headquarters of paramilitary Bangladesh Rifles force.