Missing
Missing Nassa Group official’s body retrieved from Jamuna
The body of an official of Nassa Group was recovered from the Jamuna River at Shibaloy upazila in Manikganj on Sunday, two days after he went missing while bathing in the river.
The deceased was identified as Ash Habib, 43, Of Bogura district. He was a general manager of Nassa group in Gazipur’s Ashulia.
Locals spotted the body floating in the river near Zafarganj area around 11am and alerted the police. Later, police recovered the body, said Officer-in-Charge (OC) of Paturia River Police Station Abu Bakar Siddique.
According to family sources, Habib along with his family came to visit the Jafarganj area for vacation and went missing while bathing in the river on Friday.
The body will be handed over to his family after completing the legal procedures, said the OC.
Also read: Missing tourist’s body recovered after two days from Moheshkhali Channel
2 farmers go missing as trawler sinks in Padma
Two farmers went missing Saturday morning after a paddy-laden trawler capsized in the Padma river amid stormy weather near Louhajang turning point in Munshiganj district.
The missing farmers were identified as Helal Fakir,50, and Alo Fakir,60.
The trawler with 15 passengers , all farmers, on board sank in the river while theywere returning home after harvesting paddy at Arial Beel with some 150 maunds of paddy.
Also read: Boat capsizes in Sylhet; 2 missing
Thirteen farmers were rescued alive with the help of nearby vessels after the accident, said Abdul Awal, Upazila Nirbahi Officer of Louhajang Upazila.
He said fire service men were informed while locals were trying to trace the missing farmers at noon.
Also read: Missing tourist’s body recovered after two days from Moheshkhali Channel
“The trawler was moving defying the ban on trawler movement due to inclement weather and action will be taken in this regard,” said UNO Abdul Awal.
Boat capsizes in Sylhet; 2 missing
Police have recovered the body of a man who went missing after a boat capsized in Kharil Beel (canal) of Sylhet Sadar upazila’s Jalalabad union.
The deceased has been identified as Ashkandar Ali, a resident of Putamara village.
OC Nazmul Huda Khan of Jalalabad Police Station said that locals spotted the body floating in the canal and informed police on Monday afternoon. Later police recovered the body.
Another person, Razzakh Ali, resident of Rayer Gao village is still missing, he said.
READ: Trawler capsizes off Chandpur
The incident occurred on Sunday night at around 10.30 pm.
Obaidullah Ishaq, chairman of the Jalalabad union, said that eight people were returning home by boat at night. The boat capsized due to a storm. Six of them were rescued but two were still missing.
The capsized boat was recovered at around 11 am on Monday. Fire service divers are conducting the search operation, he said
4 teen girls go missing in Laxmipur
Four teenage girls have been missing since Saturday morning in Badamtoli in Kamalnagar upazila of Laxmipur district, police said on Sunday.
The victims were identified as Zobaida Akter, 12, Mitu Akter, 12, Samia Akter Niha, 13 and Shimu Akter, 14.
Also read: Missing college student found dead in Rajshahi
General diaries were lodged with Kamalnagar Police in connection with the disappearance of four girls on Saturday night, said Mohammad Solaiman, officer-in-charge of Kamalnagar Police Station.
The four girls went out on Saturday morning telling their mothers they were going to their maternal grandfather’s house but on Saturday night, Niha’s family came to know that they had not reached their destination.
Also read: Ctg cops reunite missing Lakshmipur girls with families
Police are conducting a drive to find them, said OC.
Ctg cops reunite missing Lakshmipur girls with families
Three children who went missing while returning home from their relative's place in Lakshmipur on Tuesday, have been reunited with their families, police said on Wednesday.
The girls have been identified as Sumaiya Akter, 11, Ria Akter, 10, and Taslima Akter, 7, all residents of Laxmipur. Police said they were tracked down in the port city.
Also read: 2 siblings go missing in Jamuna River
“The three girls got on a Chattogram-bound bus by mistake while returning home from their aunt’s house on the day of Eid-ul-Fitr,” said Shaker Ahmed, officer-in-charge of Akbar Shah police station in Chattogram.
"Our men took custody of the girls as they started crying after getting down from the bus in the AK Khan area of the city. Later they were reunited with their families," the OC added.
Also read: Speedboat sinks in Bay: Another body recovered, 2 still missing
7 people from missing tour boat in Japan found
The Japanese Coast Guard said Sunday that rescue helicopters found seven of the 26 people from a tour boat missing in the frigid waters of northern Japan since the day before, but their conditions are unknown.
Rescuers found four people near the tip of Shiretoko Peninsula earlier Sunday and then three more people in the same area a few hours later, but the coast guard said it could not confirm whether they were rescued alive. NHK public television said they were unconscious.
The coast guard said all seven people were found in the same area near the tip of the peninsula north of where the boat sent a distress call on Saturday. The location is known as a difficult place to maneuver boats because of its rocky coastline. The same tour boat had an accident there last year.
Footage on NHK showed one of the rescued people arriving on a helicopter and being transferred to an ambulance on a stretcher, while rescuers held up blue plastic shields for privacy.
The boat carrying 24 passengers, including two children, and two crew members had gone missing after sending a distress call, saying it took on water and was beginning to sink.
Sunday’s rescue came after nearly 19 hours of intense search involving six patrol boats, several aircraft and divers. The coast guard said the search continued through the night.
The 19-ton Kazu 1 made an emergency call in the early afternoon on Saturday, saying the ship’s bow had flooded and it was beginning to sink and tilt while traveling off the western coast of Shiretoko Peninsula on the northern island of Hokkaido, the coast guard said.
The tour boat has since lost contact, according to the coast guard. Nineteen people are still missing.
Average April sea temperatures in Shiretoko National Park are just above freezing.
An official for the vessel’s operator, Shiretoko Pleasure Cruise, said he could not comment because he had to respond to calls from worried families of the passengers.
READ: Tour boat with 26 missing in north Japan after distress call
Prime Minister Fumio Kishida, who was attending a two-day summit in Kumamoto in southern Japan, canceled his program for the second day and returned to Tokyo. He told reporters in the early hours of Sunday that he instructed officials “to do everything they can for the rescue.”
The cause of the accident is still under investigation, but experts suspect the boat ran aground and was damaged in rough seas in an area known for strong currents and a rocky coastline.
High waves and strong winds were observed in the area around noon, according to a local fisheries cooperative. Japanese media reports said fishing boats had returned to port before noon because of the bad weather.
NHK said there was a warning for high waves of up to 3 meters (9 feet).
A tour boat crew belonging to another operator told NHK that he warned of rough seas when he spotted the Kazu 1 crew and told them not to go. He said the same boat went aground last year and suffered a crack on its bow.
The coast guard confirmed that the same boat went aground in the area last June, though nobody was injured in that accident.
Yoshihiko Yamada, a Tokai University marine science professor, said the boat was likely to have run aground after it was tossed around in high waves and damaged, flooded and probably sank. A tour boat of that size usually does not carry a life boat, and passengers possibly could not escape a rapidly sinking vessel with its windows likely closed to shield them from strong winds.
In an interview with TBS television, Yamada said there was also a slight possibility the boat could have been hit by a whale.
The cold temperature and strong wind could cause hypothermia and put the passengers in severe conditions for survival, according to Jun Abe, vice chairman of the Society of Water Rescue and Survival Research. “It’s a very severe condition especially when they are wet,” Abe told TBS.
According to the operator’s website, the tour takes around three hours and offers scenic views of the western coast of the peninsula and includes potential sightings of animals such as whales, dolphins and brown bears. The national park is listed as a UNESCO World Heritage site and is famous as the southernmost region to see drifting sea ice.
Tour boat with 26 missing in north Japan after distress call
A tour boat with 26 people aboard was missing in rough and cold waters off northern Japan on Saturday after issuing a distress call and reporting to be sinking, the coast guard said.
No survivors have been found after more than seven hours of an intense search involving six patrol boats and four aircraft.
The 19-ton Kazu 1 made an emergency call in early afternoon, saying the ship’s bow had flooded and was beginning to sink and tilt while it was traveling off the western coast of Shiretoko Peninsula in the northern island of Hokkaido, the coast guard said.
Also read: UN says boat capsizes off Libya, 35 dead or presumed dead
The tour boat has since lost contact, according to the coast guard. It said the boat was carrying 24 passengers, including two children, and two crew.
Average April sea temperatures in Shiretoko National Park are just above freezing.
An official of the vessel's operator, Shiretoko Pleasure Cruise, said he could not comment as he had to respond to calls from worried families of the passengers.
Prime Minister Fumio Kishida, who was attending a two-day water summit in Kumamoto in southern Japan, was canceling his program for Sunday and was set to return to Tokyo to deal with the missing boat, the NHK public broadcaster reported.
High waves and strong winds were observed in the area around noon, according to a local fisheries cooperative. Japanese media reports said fishing boats had returned to port before noon because of the bad weather.
Also read: At least 7 killed after boat capsizes in Ghana
NHK said there was a warning for high waves of up to 3 meters (9 feet) high.
According to the operator's website, the tour takes about three hours and offers a scenic view of the western coast of the peninsula, including the nature and animals such as whales, dolphins and the brown bear. The national park is listed as a UNESCO World Heritage site and is famous as the southernmost region to see drifting sea ice.
Lighter vessel sinks in Bay: 12 missing crew members rescued
Twelve crew of a lighter vessel who went missing after a lighter vessel sank in the Bay of Bengal near Bhashanchar of Noakhali district were rescued alive on Saturday.
“On information, a rescue ship of Bangladesh Navy was sent immediately to the spot but some private ships nearby had rescued the crew before it reached,” said Abdul Momin, media officer of the Navy told UNB.
Also read: Lighter vessel sinks in Bay: 12 crew go missing
‘Sajal-Tanmoy-2’ a lighter vessel carrying coal sank in the Bay of Bengal, 12 nautical miles off the southern area of Bhashanchar around 9:30 am.
Also read: Lighter vessel sinks near Ctg port: Another body recovered
Two drown, 3 missing as ferry sinks off Barishal coast
A mother-daughter duo drowned while three other passengers went missing after a ferry capsized in the Gazaria river in Barishal’s Mehendiganj upazila on Friday morning, police said.
The deceased were identified as Mahinur Begum, 55, and her daughter Nasreen Begum, 25, residents of the upazila.
Also read: Tugboat sinks at Matarbari channel: Missing Chinese national’s body recovered
Officer-in-charge of Mehendiganj police station Touhid Zaman said that the accident occurred around 10.30am when the vessel was ferrying some eight passengers to Dalil Khajuria from Mehendiganj Majherchar.
The ferry overturned due to strong waves and capsized. "A Coast Guard team fished out two bodies later. Three passengers are still missing," the OC said, adding that three people managed to swim ashore.
The bodies have been sent to Mehendiganj Upazila Health Complex. "A search and rescue operation is underway," he added.
Missing youth found dead in Chuadanga
Police have recovered the body of a young man from Chuadanga’s Alamdanga upazila four days after his disappearance.
The hanging body of Sajjadul Alam Chapal, 35, was found at their abandoned house in Gobindpur village of Alamdanga at around 2.30 pm on Friday.
He was the son of Shahed Ali Gazi of the Mathpara area in the village.
Chapal used to live with his family at his father-in-law's house in Meherpur district. No one lived in their abandoned house in Alamdanga.
On Friday, locals spotted him hanging there and informed the police. Later his body was recovered and sent to the morgue of Chuadanga Sadar Hospital for autopsy.
READ: Stalked by teacher, woman ends life in Chuadanga
Alamdanga Police officer-in-charge (OC) Saiful Islam said Chapal's hanging body was recovered from his abandoned house four days after he went missing.
Police suspect it as a case of suicide.
The body has been sent to a hospital morgue for autopsy, said the OC adding they have launched an investigation on the death.