A garment worker, Saddam Hossain, went missing after diving off a boat into the Sitalakhya river, in order to avoid a more catastrophic accident at Nabiganj Kheyaghat of Narayanganj district on Monday.
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Abdullah Al Arefin, deputy assistant director of Narayanganj Fire Service and Civil Defence, said the incident occurred around 9am, when three people on a boat apprehended a possible collision with a trawler-boat in the river.
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Two people including the boatman managed to swim ashore but Saddam remained missing.
On information, divers from the local fire station conducted a salvage operation to rescue the victim.
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