New England Women's Awami League president found dead in Boston home
Police recovered the body of expatriate Nasim Parveen president of the New England Women's Awami League, from her home in Boston.
On Tuesday (7 April) afternoon local time, the police recovered her body by breaking the door of her home in West Roxbury, a town near Boston, Massachusetts.
Boston's Awami League leader Osman Gani confirmed her death.
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She lived alone in her house for a long time.
Osman Gani said the son and daughter of Nasim Parveen live in other cities in Massachusetts state.
"Due to their busy schedules, they met their mother occasionally. The mother was last spoken to on the phone (2 April). After that, despite many attempts, they could not get the mother on the phone. When they suspected it, her son went to the West Roxbury house on Tuesday afternoon, pressed the calling bell and knocked on the door, but when there was no response, her son informed the police,' he said.
"The police came and broke the door recovered the body of Nasim Parveen and sent it to the morgue of the local hospital," he added.
The cause of her death was not known until the writing of this report.
Nasim Parveen, a Boston expatriate, is the ex-wife of former foreign minister AK Abdul Momen.
After their divorce, she lived for a long time in West Roxbury, Massachusetts (near Boston) with her son and daughter.
Later, when the children moved to other cities for work, she lived alone in that house.
Nasim Parveen was the president of the New England (Boston) Women's Awami League. Before this, she was the vice president of the local Awami League.
