Arif, who had been sick for some time, was admitted to Mt Sinai St Luke’s Hospital in Manhattan after his heart valves stopped working. The reciter underwent a bypass surgery and a replacement of the heart valves on Tuesday, after which he was transferred to the intensive monitoring centre. Photo via reciter Ahkam Ullah's Facebook pageAround 1 am New York time, his daughter 'Anushka' said doctors had declared Arif clinically dead. Arif, who had been sick for some time, was admitted to Mt Sinai St Luke’s Hospital in Manhattan after his heart valves stopped working. The name of the hospital is Mount Sinai St Luke’s.”Kazi Arif was born on Oct 31, 1952 in Faridpur’s Rajbarhi and grew up in Chittagong.

Source: bd News24 April 29, 2017 18:45 UTC