Bank employee Masuma Akter succumbed to severe burns on Wednesday after medical attention for 15 days.
She was an employee of the State-owned Rupali Bank.Her husband Mahbub Hossain told bdnews24.com that she died around 11.30am at a hospital in Dhaka.
She was badly burnt when a petrol-bomb was hurled at a bus in Dhaka's Shahbagh on Nov 28 during the Opposition blockade.
The bombing left 19 passengers injured.
Hossain said that he had shifted his wife to the 'Dhaka Burn Hospital' at Elephant Road after she was admitted to the Dhaka Medical College Hospital.
A Dhaka University graduate, Akter is the fourth victim to die of burns sustained in that bombing.
On Dec 4, 22-year old Ohidur Rahman, a student of Dhaka College died at the Dhaka Medical College Hospital after suffering for six days.
On the day of the attack, Teenager Nahid Moral died while his cousin, a 22-year old garment factory worker Md Robin died the next day at DMCH.
All four were on the ill-fated bus when it was bombed at Shahbagh on Nov 28 by Opposition activists.
Fourteen persons have so far died at DMCH of burns suffered in violence during the Opposition's recent blockades and strikes.
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