4 bodies including mother and daughter recovered in Narayanganj Trawler capsize

Naval police have recovered the bodies of four persons who went missing after a passenger trawler sank in the Dhaleshwari river at Fatulla Dharmaganj Ghat in Narayanganj. Five days after the incident, the bodies were found floating on Sunday (January 9) morning. Among them are the bodies of a missing woman named Jasmine Akter and her daughter.

Deputy Assistant Director of Narayanganj Fire Service Abdullah Al Arefin confirmed the news.

He said that 4 bodies were found floating near Dharmaganj Ghat in the morning. Six more are still missing. The sunken trawler has not yet been identified. The locals informed us when they saw four bodies floating away from the place where the trawler sank. We immediately went to rescue. Attempts are being made to identify the body.

On the morning of January 5, the trawler with more than 50 passengers left Nakhalpara Sepaibari ghat in Fatulla for the Dharmaganj ferry terminal. The trawler sank when it reached the middle of the Dhaleshwari river and hit a passenger launch named MV Farhan bound for Dhaka from Barisal. Although most of the passengers were able to swim to shore at that time, 6 passengers including four members of the same family went missing.