Cox’s Bazar Correspondent
At least one person died and many others missing after a trawler capsized in the Bay of Bengal near Saint Martin’s Island in the southeastern Cox’s Bazar district, early yesterday.
Police in the morning recovered a body while many others remain missing. The trawler carrying more than 100 people, mostly from Myanmar, capsized in the Teknaf river bordering Myanmar.
Police Super of Cox’s Bazar Banaj Kumar Majumder said the people were traveling by a fishing trawler in disguise of fishermen to enter Malaysia through the illegal waterway. [Read more]