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Detained Dhaka City Corporation commissioner Md Qayyum Khan died Friday morning. The Kafrul ward commissioner suffered a stroke at Dhaka Central Jail where he had been detained for over a year. He was taken to Dhaka Medical College Hospital where the duty doctors at the emergency room declared him dead.

DCC mayor and city BNP president Sadeque Hossain Khoka told reporters he would seek the intervention of concerned authorities to investigate the circumstances surrounding the death.

On hearing of Qayyum's death, Khoka went to pay his last respects to the deceased at DMCH and pay condolences to the family. Qayyum's wife Mazeda Parveen, three daughters and other relatives present at the hospital. Nephew Abdul Baten told bdnews24.com: "The circumstances which led to my uncle's death, without proper medical treatment while in detention, must be investigated thoroughly." Police arrested Qayyum on Jan 13, 2007, on charges of breaching emergency powers rules.

The commissioner was freed on bail on Jan 10, 2008, only to be re-arrested the following day for breaching EPR in a case filed against him with Kafrul police station. Deputy inspector general of prisons Major Shamsul Haider Siddiqui told bdnews24.com that the ward commissioner had been ailing.

"He fell to the floor unconscious as he went to the bathroom in the morning," Siddiqui said. He added that Qayyum had undergone heart bypass surgery four years ago. The body is being kept at the DMCH morgue for autopsy, the DIG prisons said. It will be handed over to the family of the deceased after the post-mortem.

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