Shah Md Azizur Rahman, a former lawmaker, passed away yesterday, aged 80, said a press release. The freedom fighter had been suffering from old-age complications and undergoing treatment at a Sylhet hospital, said Shafiul Alam Nadel, organising secretary of Sylhet city Awami League. Azizur was a lawmaker of Sylhet-2 constituency during 1996-2001 regime.

He was laid to rest at his village home in Osmaninagar upazila.