Senior lawyer Khandaker Mahbub put on ventilator

UNB, Dhaka :

Senior lawyer and BNP vice-chairman Khandaker Mahbub Hossain has been put on a ventilator at a private hospital in the city.

He was admitted to Evercare Hospital with respiratory problem on Tuesday, said Sayrul Kabir Khan, a BNP media cell member, quoting the family on Wednesday.

Mahbub, former vice-president of the Bangladesh Bar Council and president of Supreme Court Bar Association, is one of the lawyers of BNP chairperson Khaleda Zia.