Dhaka, Feb. 25 -- A death-row convict who took part in the Bangladesh Rifles mutiny has died at a hospital in Dhaka.

Abdul Baten, 70, was rushed from Kashimpur High-Security Prison in Gazipur to Dhaka Medical College Hospital, where doctors declared him dead around 2 am Saturday, said Inspector Md Bachchu Mia, chief of the hospital's police outpost. Baten was a native of Shahpur in Brahmanbaria.

The central prison's Senior Jail Superintendent Subrata Kumar Bala said Baten, who had a ring implanted in his heart after previously suffering cardiac arrest, suddenly fell ill on Friday night.

Baten was initially moved to the prison hospital and later to Shaheed Tajuddin Ahmad Medical College Hospital, Subrata said. "He was then transferred t...