An accused of the blogger murders died on Tuesday while undergoing treatment at Dhaka Medical College Hospital (DMCH) under custody.

The deceased is Abul Basher, 45, an accused of the murders of bloggers Avijit Roy and Ananta Bijoy Das, reports UNB.

Jahangir Kabir, senior jail super of Dhaka Central Jail, said under-trial prisoner Abul Bashar was brought to Dhaka Central Jail from Kashimpur High Security Central Jail in Gazipur on September 5 for treatment. Since then, he had been undergoing treatment at the DMCH as he was sufferings from liver cirrhosis, he added.

Earlier on September 10 in 2015, members of Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) arrested Abul Bashar, reportedly the chief of banned militant outfit Ansarullah Bangla Team (ABT), along with two of his associates from Fakirerpool area in the city in connection with the murders of the two bloggers.

Avijit Roy, son of noted physicist Ajoy Roy and founder of Mukto-Mona blog, was killed and his wife Rafida Afrin Banya injured seriously as unidentified criminals stabbed them near TSC on the Dhaka University Campus on February 26, 2015.

Blogger Ananta, also an activist of Sylhet Ganajagaran Mancha, was hacked to death by a group of assailants in broad daylight at Subidbazar Bankalapara in Sylhet city on May 12 in 2015.