Outgoing Burundi prez dead at 55

Feds aim to lock up suspect a 3rd time, but he’s missing

Burundian President Pierre Nkurunziza, who was due to step down this year after some 15 years in power, has died of a heart attack, the government announced on Tuesday.

“Burundi has lost a worthy son of the country, a president of the republic, a supreme guide of national patriotism,” government spokesman Prosper Ntahorwamiye said.

Nkurunziza, who ruled the tiny East African nation for three terms, was due to leave politics after elections in May. His decision to run for president for a third time in 2015 led to mass civil unrest.

According to the statement, Nkurunziza, 55, had attended a volleyball match Saturday afternoon and was taken to a hospital that evening after falling ill. Although he appeared to recover Sunday and spoke to those around him, he suddenly deteriorated Monday morning.

He then suffered a heart attack, and despite an immediate resuscitation attempt, doctors were unable to revive him.

The government said there would be a period of national mourning for seven days from Tuesday and that flags would be flown at half-staff.

An accused meth dealer released twice from federal custody due to the coronavirus pandemic was ordered jailed again by a Brooklyn judge for breaking the terms of his bail — only the feds don’t know where he is.

Rasedur Raihan, 22, was one of the first federal inmates freed due to COVID-19 concerns back on March 12, but had it revoked the next day after he attempted to cut off his electronic ankle monitor. He was released again by the same judge April 21 on $100,000 bail.

But Raihan has not abided by the terms of his bail, according to the feds. Raihan, who is required to submit to drug tests, has tested positive for methamphetamine 16 times since his original arrest, including two positive tests in May, according to law enforcement sources.

“The defendant has repeatedly violated conditions of release. I cannot find that he will comply with any conditions or combination of conditions,” wrote Magistrate Judge James Orenstein, the same jurist who released Raihan both times, on Monday. Orenstein ordered Raihan to turn himself in at Brooklyn

A man was found hanged from a tree in an apparent suicide in an upper Manhattan park early Tuesday, officials said.

The grisly discovery

Federal Court on Monday at 5 p.m., but Raihan never showed. On Tuesday, authorities showed up at Raihan’s residence, but he was not there.

An arrest warrant has been issued, and federal marshals are searching for him, law enforcement sources said.

Raihan was held at Brooklyn’s Metropolitan Detention Center when he was incarcerated.

He was arrested in 2019 after a Customs and Border Protection agent seized a parcel shipped to him from Bangladesh that contained 134 grams of meth in pill form, authorities said.

His case became a referendum on releasing inmates over COVID-19 concerns, with prosecutors routinely citing him cutting off his ankle monitor as a reason not to grant other bail applications.

Defense attorneys, for their part, cited Raihan’s case early on as an example of how judges were granting bail over concerns in jails due to coronavirus.

“The more people we crowd into that facility, the more we’re increasing the risk to the community. I’m really hesitant to respond to drug usage with incarceration given that risk,” Orenstein said of Raihan’s case when he first ordered him released in March. was made by a passerby walking through Fort Tryon Park in Inwood about 6 a.m., cops said.

The man’s name was not immediately released.

Police believe he took his own life.

An autopsy has been scheduled to confirm his cause of death.