Bangladeshi youth drowns in New York

A Bangladeshi youth drowned in New York, USA.

Mohammad Shakib Chowdhury, 22, drowned while swimming in a swimming pool in the Queens area of the city on Sunday.

The US-born Shakib went to the Roosevelt Island Gymnasium on Main Street in Queens around 4.30pm on Sunday.

After falling into the water, lifeguards saw him floating in the water and immediately rescued him and sent him to Mount Sinai Hospital by ambulance.

After being taken to the hospital, the doctor on duty examined him and declared Shakib dead.

The body was handed over to the family after an autopsy of Shakib Chowdhury on Monday with the consent of the family.

Shakib Chowdhury's body was kept in his own funeral home at Parkchester Jame Mosque.

His janaza was held at the Parkchester Jame Mosque after the Zohar prayers on Tuesday, local time. He was later buried in the cemetery of Parkchester Jame Mosque in New Jersey, the mosque's secretary Nurul Yahya said.

Six young people died prematurely in New York in the past year.

Shakib, the eldest son of Shahjahan Chowdhury and Shahina Akter, expatriates living in the Bronx, was a final year student of Hunter College. Their village home is located in Cumilla district.