The New Nation - Internet Edition

UNB, Sylhet

Khairunnesa, mother of detained Sylhet City Corporation Mayor Badar Uddin Ahmed Kamran, died at Square Hospital in the capital at about 3 pm on Sunday. She was 80.

Kamran, who contested the Aug 4 polls from under detention and got reelected mayor in a landslide victory, was, meanwhile, being shifted to Sylhet Jail from Comilla Central Jail in the afternoon to facilitate his attending his mother's funerals.

"He is likely to be released on parole from Sylhet Jail this evening or on Monday morning," an official source here said.

Kamran, facing three cases of corruption under the current purge launched by the interim regime, was rearrested on May 28, 2007 after he was released from jail on bail.

UNB Comilla correspondent said Kamran already started for Sylhet from Comilla Central Jail by a microbus under police escort.