Dhaka, Oct. 26 -- The atmosphere at Dhaka's Shaheed Suhrawardy Medical College Hospital has turned sombre with grief as relatives of Abul Kalam mourned his sudden death from a metro rail bearing pad.

Inconsolable, Irin Akhter Pia, Kalam's wife, collapsed several times outside the morgue on Sunday.

Holding one of their young sons in her arms, she broke down saying: "I never wanted to bid him farewell today. I didn't even close the door behind him. What will happen to my children?"

Around 12:30pm on Sunday, the 36-year-old was walking along the footpath near the Krishibid Institute, under the Farmgate metro station, when the heavy bearing pad fell from above, killing him on the spot, said Tejgaon Police chief Mobarak Hossain.

Kalam, ori...