C T Online Desk: The members of Fire Service have recovered bodies of four people, who were remained missing along with six others since a trawler capsized four days ago in the Dhaleshwari River.
The identities of the deceased could not be known yet.
The trawler capsized after it was hit by a launch on the Dhaleshwari River in Narayanganj on Wednesday.
The trawler was ferrying more than 100 people when a Dhaka-bound passenger launch, MV Farhan 6, hit the vessel near the Dharmaganj jetty in Fatulla as dense fog reduced visibility.
MV Farhan 6, which is owned by Jatiya Party MP Golam Kibria Tipu for the Barishal 3 (Muladi-Babuganj) constituency, operates on the Dhaka-Betua river route.
Following the incident, police seized the launch from a dockyard in Keraniganj and arrested three people.
The arrestees have been identified as launch master Kamrul Hasan, 40, in-charge driver Jashim Uddin Bhuiyan, 40, and Md Jashim Molla, 30.
Earlier on Thursday morning, Babu Lal Vaidya, acting deputy director of BIWTA’s maritime security department, filed a case with Fatullah Model Police Station accusing three people, including the launch’s master, of negligence and whimsicality in the sinking of a trawler by MV Farhan-6.
The accused are launch master Md. Kamrul Hasan, 40, driver Md. Jasim Uddin Bhuiyan, 40, and Sukani Md. Jasim Mollah, 30.
Police sought a five-day remand to interrogate the three suspects. The hearing on the matter is set for today.
Meanwhile, Narayanganj Deputy Commissioner Mustain Billah said he had formed a 7-member probe committee, which is due to submit its report on the matter in 10 working days.
Meanwhile, three units of the Narayanganj Fire Service and Civil Defence, along with Coast Guard and River Police, were searching a portion of the river located in Narayanganj’s Sadar Upazila.
The search will continue until the trawler and the missing persons are found, authorities said.
