Oldest war crimes accused dies in Dhaka

Abdullah Al Baki alias Abdullah Hel Baki, the oldest war crimes criminal in Bangladesh, died of old age complications in his Dhaka residence tonight. He was 106. "He breathed his last at 9:40pm at his rented house in the city's Lalbagh area. He was given bail in 2017," Baki's defence counsel Abdus Sattar Palwan told The Daily Star. He was the oldest among all accused in war