Chandpur: Five bodies and three others in critical condition have been recovered from a cargo ship docked in Meghna in Chandpur. Two more people died after the injured were sent to hospital. This brings the death toll to 7. It is not yet known how they died.
The news of the bodies was received after 1 pm on Monday (December 23). It is learnt that the ship is named MV Al-Bakhera. The ship was anchored. Naval police and Coast Guard members reached the ship around noon. They then rescued the dead and injured.
Lt. Col. Shams, Staff Officer (Dhaka Zone) of the Coast Guard in Bangladesh, confirmed this information.
Initially, the police believed that the cargo ship was supposed to go to Narayanganj with fertilizer. The cargo ship was robbed by robbers in Meghna in Chandpur last night. This led to the casualties.
The naval police said that the vessel was anchored in the Meghna River of Chandpur Sadar Police Station. It was transporting fertilizer. It is believed that the deceased could be the driver and other workers of the vessel.
Additional Superintendent of Police (SP) of the naval police in Chandpur, Syed Mushfiqur Rahman, said that through 999, they came to know that bodies were found on a vessel named MV Al Bahera. Five were found dead and three are in critical condition. They were rescued in a bloody state and sent to Chandpur Sadar Hospital for treatment. Since there are no passengers on the cargo ship, only staff is present. In that case, it seems that this is not an incident of robbery. Such an incident could have happened due to previous enmity. Details can be given after the investigation. The Coast Guard and the naval police are jointly searching the ship.