A 23-year-old British man drowned in a pond on the Bangladesh Agricultural University (BAU) campus in Mymensingh on Saturday.
The deceased was Atif Mohammad, a British citizen hailing from 50 Brington Road, Manchester, UK. He arrived in Bangladesh on October 2 last year.
Atif was part of a 13-member team from Tablighi-Jamaat, which included five British citizens, four Australians and four Bangladeshis. The group was attending the Baitul Aman mosque located on the BAU campus on Friday morning, said Dr Habibur Rahman, amir of the team and a professor at Sir Syed Salimullah Medical College.
Eyewitnesses said Atif and his friends were swimming in the mosque’s pond during the afternoon when he drowned. Locals retrieved Atif unconscious from the water and rushed him to Mymensingh Medical College Hospital, where doctors declared him dead around 6pm.
Golam Sarwor, officer-in-charge of Kotwali police station, said an unnatural death case was filed.
The deceased’s body will be handed over to the British High Commission after the completion of a post mortem examination is conducted in accordance with the High Commission’s orders, added the OC.
