A prisoner of Dhaka central jail in Keraniganj died at the Dhaka Medical College Hospital on Friday.
Prisoner Mohammad Shafiqur Rahman, 84, fell ill in the jail in the afternoon and was taken to the emergency department of the hospital, where the duty doctor declared him dead at about 3:30pm, according to prison authorities.
Prison guard Mohammad Monirul Islam said that Shafiqur hailed from Feni.
Monirul, however, could not confirm in which case Shafiqur was imprisoned.
Md Faruk, in charge of the police camp at DMCH, said that the body was kept at the hospital鈥檚 morgue for an autopsy.