Former Bangladesh President Justice Shahabuddin Ahmed died due to complications from old age at a Dhaka hospital on Saturday. He was 92.

The former president breathed his last at Dhaka Combined Military Hospital (CMH) around 10.30am, said Md Saifur Rahman, special officer of the Supreme Court.

He had been suffering from different age-related complications and was undergoing treatment at CMH since February.

Chief Justice Hasan Foez Siddique expressed profound shock at the demise of the former Chief Justice and prayed for the eternal salvation of the departed soul and expressed sympathy to the bereaved family.