Former Bangladesh President and military ruler Hussain Muhammad Ershad has died aged 89 following age-related health complications, an aide has said.
"He died today morning after suffering for about three weeks," his political and press secretary Sunil Shuva Roy told reporters on Sunday.
The former president had reportedly been on life support for 10 days in a military hospital in the capital, Dhaka, with liver and kidney functions impaired.
As army chief of staff, Ershad seized power in a bloodless coup on April 24, 1982, and declared himself president the next year.
He ruled until December 1990 when he was forced to resign in the face of mass upheaval and weeks of anti-government protests.
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