Dhaka: Former finance minister and senior member of the opposition Bangladesh Nationalist Party M. Saifur Rahman was killed in a car accident on Saturday, police said.

The car fell into a ditch when hit by a bus near Brahmanbaria town, 100 km east of the capital Dhaka. Doctors declared him dead at a hospital.

Saifur was travelling to Dhaka from his home in the northeastern city of Sylhet to attend an emergency meeting of the BNP on Saturday evening, to be chaired by party chief Begum Khaleda Zia, party officials said.

No other details were immediately available.

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