Dhaka: Ten days after the sudden death of his husband, Afsana Khanam, wife of pilot Abid Sultan who died in the US-Bangla aircraft crash in Kathmandu, passed away on Friday morning.

Joint director of National Institute of Neurosciences & Hospital Professor Dr Mohammad Badrul Alam Mandol told NTV Online Afsana has been declared dead at about 9:30am.

Earlier, on 19 March, she was kept on life support at the hospital as her condition deteriorated.

Afsana was admitted to the hospital on 18 March following a stroke and the doctors conducted a surgery on her.

She had multiple clotting in the right side of her brain and as a result her body’s left side became paralyzed, said Dr Shiraji Shafiqul Islam, an assistant professor of the institute.

Dr Badrul Alam, Joint Director of the institute said Afsana was a diabetic patient and suffered the stroke because of stress.

Abid Sultan, who sustained injuries in the plane crash, died at Norvic Hospital in Kathmandu a day after the incident.

US-Bangla Airlines flight BS211, which flew from Dhaka to Kathmandu carrying 67 passengers and four crewmembers, crashed at Tribhuvan International Airport in the capital of Himalayan country of Nepal on Monday, leaving 49 people, including 26 Bangladeshis, dead.