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A newly married couple drowned on their honeymoon just four days after their wedding.
Mohammad Malik, 35, and Dr. Noor Shah, 29, were on vacation in the Caribbean in late October when the tragedy struck.
The couple were swept under the water by heavy storm surge, Mohammad’s father told Newsday.
The pair are believed to have been swimming in chest-deep water near their accommodation when they suddenly sank.
They drowned on October 28 at a resort in the Turks and Caicos Islands near Como Parrot Cay.
Witnesses pulled Mohammad and his wife out of the water and performed CPR on them, but were unable to save the couple who died at the scene.
They had been married just four days earlier in Long Island, New York, on October 24.
Mohammad’s brother, Ahmad Malik, 25, said: “My brother was deeply in love with her. He always shone when he was with her. It was shining on their wedding day.
“It was the happiest day of our lives just four days earlier when we celebrated her wedding at The Carltun in Eisenhower Park.”
Ahmad added: “Noor and Mohammad together were simply magnetic and brought happiness to everyone around them.
“Their energy was contagious and beautiful and they were beautiful and bright.
“While we are sad that they are no longer with us, we are glad that they are together and were together in their final moments.”
The man’s father, Colonel R. Maqbool Malik, 70, said he learned of the deaths when the United States embassy in the Bahamas informed him.
He described the incident as a “devastating loss.”
He added: “It is an incredible shock. And it is a tragedy of different dimensions when you have to put two children to rest at a joint funeral.
“They were really in love with each other. The kind of chemistry we saw in those two human beings was amazingly fascinating. They loved each other.”
The groom’s brothers, Salman, 41, and Ahmad, 22, went to the Turks and Caicos Islands to identify the bodies.
His funeral was scheduled for Sunday in Teaneck, New Jersey.
The couple were supposed to move in together this week, according to The New York Post.
Mohammad’s law firm, Olshan Frome, said the couple were “bright lights that touched everyone who had the benefit of knowing them,” 7News reported.
Noor’s hospital, NYU Langone Health, said she was an “excellent resident and a promising surgeon and will be deeply missed.”
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