bdnews24.com :A Bangladeshi nurse has been reportedly missing in New York for over three months.Mahfuza Rahman, 30, was last seen at her workplace, the Bellevue Hospital, on Dec 8 last year, media reports, citing her colleagues, say. The next day her husband Mohammad Chowdhury, 38, had told hospital authorities, when they called to inquire about her after seeing her absent, that she had returned to Bangladesh because a close relative was injured in an accident.He also said his wife would return to New York by the first week of March, the reports say. However, Mahfuza did not return and Chowdhury, meanwhile, left the house with his 9-year-old daughter, telling the neighbours that they were returning to Dhaka.Bellevue Hospital authorities on Friday last informed the local police who then went to the couple’s Kingsbridge Heights home in Bronx. The neighbours told police that the house had been locked since Chowdhury ‘left for Bangladesh’ with his daughter on Dec 15. Before leaving, he had requested the neighbours to keep an eye on the house.Fearing that Rahman might have been killed, police on Monday raided the family’s home on East 198th Street, dug up the patio and had a cadaver dog search for any scent.
