THE BRONX — Police are searching for a Bellevue nurse who went missing in The Bronx in early December.
Mahfuza Rahman, 30, was last seen leaving Bellevue Hospital on Dec. 8, police said. Her husband called the hospital that day and told co-workers that she had to return to Bangladesh for a family emergency and would not be back to work for awhile.
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A few weeks later, police with the Health and Hospitals Corporation called on the husband about Rahman's whereabouts.
He claimed that his wife rushed by back to Bangladesh because her parents had been in a car accident there and were gravely injured, sources said.
Months later, when she had not returned to work and still could not be reached by phone hospital police notified the NYPD that she was missing on March 4, according to the NYPD.
Investigators stopped by the family's last known address at 22 E. 198th St. and found the husband and the couple's daughter had also disappeared. Sources said that the man and the girl returned to Bangladesh on Dec. 14, sources said.
Detectives were able to confirm that the father and daughter flew to the United Arab Emirates on Dec. 14 and then on to Bangladesh, sources said. There is no evidence that Rahman ever left the United States, they said.
Further, investigators tracked down the woman's parents in the Asia subcontinent and they said that they had never been in car accident, sources said.
The parents said that the husband told them that Rahman had left him and returned to Bangladesh without him.
When police went to the couple's apartment to ask about her disappearance, eerily, nothing had been packed up. It was still fully furnished and police confiscated computers from the home for analysis, sources said.
Police jackhammered some new concrete at the Bronx property where the family lived, but police dogs found no trace of foul play, sources said.
The incident is still being treated as a missing persons case for now, police said.
