A Coast Guard team on Sunday fished out the bodies of two more fishermen from the Bay of Bengal, two days after a fishing trawler carrying 19 fishermen capsized amid inclement weather. The deceased were identified as Anwar Hossain and Nurul Islam. Local fishermen spotted the bodies at Najirartek Channel of the Bay in the afternoon and informed the coast guard, said Selim Uddin, officer-in-charge (OC) of Cox’s Bazar Sadar police station. So far, seven bodies have been recovered from the Bay, he added. On Sunday morning, coast guard members recovered the bodies of three fishermen from Maheshkhali Sonadia channel. They were Hossain Ahmad, Azizul Haque and Mohammad Absar, residents of Sadar upazila of Cox’s Bazar.

More than 24 hours after three people were washed away while crossing a river in the Char Gazalia area of Bakerganj upazila, their bodies were found. The deceased were identified as Majeda Begum, 70, her granddaughter Maria, 11, and their neighbour Alo Begum, 75, all residents of the Char Gazalia area of Nalua union of Bakerganj upazila. Md Alauddin Milon, officer-in-charge of Bakerganj Police Station, said Majeda Begum and her granddaughter Maria left home on Monday evening to bring back a cow from a char next to their house. Alo Begum also went with them. Read: Bodies of two missing children found on Cox’s Bazar beach All of them were washed away by the high tide when they were crossing the local river on Monday evening, said the OC. Later, locals spotted the bodies floating in the river near the Char Gazalia area in the small hours of Tuesday and informed cops. "We have recovered the bodies," he added.

Indian police recovered the bodies of two minor siblings from Digla Kura of Zero Line at Kashiabari border in Phulbari of Kurigram around 1pm on Sunday.Police identified the victims as Parveen Khatun, 8 and Shakibul Hasan, 4.The victims were the children of Rahim Uddin of Poschim Shukati village in Newashi union of Nageshwari upazila.The two siblings went missing while crossing the Nilkumor River, after the Indian Border Security Force (BSF) chased them as they were in a group looking to cross the border at Phulbari in Kurigram to enter Bangladesh without any paperwork on Friday night.Local people spotted their floating bodies this morning and informed law enforcers, said Kabir Hossain, company commander of Lalmonihat's Kashipur."We informed the BSF about the matter", he said, adding that a flag meeting between Border Guard Bangladesh (BGB) and Indian Security Forces (BSF) was held in this regard. Read: Flood: Bodies of mother, son recovered in SylhetBSF said the bodies of the victims in the morgue would remain for a week. They will take humanitarian consideration about the issue after getting their Bangladeshi documents, he added.Rahim Uddin, the father of the missing children, said that his children were born and brought up in India. They had never previously come to Bangladesh."I wanted to bring them along with their mother to Bangladesh and I contacted Indian brokers to bring them home safely, paying Tk 30,000," Rahim Uddin revealed.According to the contract, Rahim Uddin's wife and two children were taken to a house on the border on Friday night. There were 20-25 more people there including women and children.He further said that they tried to cross the Rdhampur border of Kashipur union of Phulbari upazila next to the main pillar No. 943 at midnight. At that time, BSF members of Shewti-1 camp in India gave chase after seeing them and they tried to cross the river hurriedly.At one stage, they went missing due to the strong current in the river. However, his wife managed to swim ashore, he added.Mecher, a UP member of Ward 4 of Newashi Union in Nageshwari Upazila, said he came to Kashipur BGB camp to bring back the bodies from India.

The remains of 215 children, some as young as 3 years old, have been found buried on the site of what was once Canada’s largest Indigenous residential school — one of the institutions that held children taken from families across the nation. Chief Rosanne Casimir of the Tk’emlups te Secwépemc First Nation said in a news release that the remains were confirmed last weekend with the help of ground-penetrating radar. More bodies may be found because there are more areas to search on the school grounds, Casimir said Friday. In an earlier release, she called the discovery an “unthinkable loss that was spoken about but never documented at the Kamloops Indian Residential School.” It was the once the site of Canada’s largest residential school. From the 19th century until the 1970s, more than 150,000 First Nations children were required to attend state-funded Christian schools as part of a program to assimilate them into Canadian society. They were forced to convert to Christianity and not allowed to speak their native languages. Many were beaten and verbally abused, and up to 6,000 are said to have died. Also Read: Canada for fostering peaceful campaign environment in Bangladesh   The Canadian government apologized in Parliament in 2008 and admitted that physical and sexual abuse in the schools was rampant. Many students recall being beaten for speaking their native languages; they also lost touch with their parents and customs. Indigenous leaders have cited that legacy of abuse and isolation as the root cause of epidemic rates of alcoholism and drug addiction on reservations. A report more than five years ago by a Truth and Reconciliation Commission said at least 3,200 children had died amid abuse and neglect, and it said it had reports of at least 51 deaths at the Kamloops school alone between 1915 and 1963. “This really resurfaces the issue of residential schools and the wounds from this legacy of genocide towards Indigenous people,” Terry Teegee, Assembly of First Nations regional chief for British Colombia, said Friday. British Columbia Premier John Horgan said he was “horrified and heartbroken” to learn of the discovery, calling it a tragedy of “unimaginable proportions” that highlights the violence and consequences of the residential school system. The Kamloops school operated between 1890 and 1969, when the federal government took over operations from the Catholic Church and operated it as a day school until it closed in 1978. Casimir said it’s believed the deaths are undocumented, although a local museum archivist is working with the Royal British Columbia Museum to see if any records of the deaths can be found. “Given the size of the school, with up to 500 students registered and attending at any one time, we understand that this confirmed loss affects First Nations communities across British Columbia and beyond,” Casimir said in the initial release issued late Thursday. The leadership of the Tk’emlups community “acknowledges their responsibility to caretake for these lost children,” Casimir said. Access to the latest technology allows for a true accounting of the missing children and will hopefully bring some peace and closure to those lives lost, she said in the release.   Casimir said band officials are informing community members and surrounding communities that had children who attended the school. The First Nations Health Authority called the discovery of the children’s remains “extremely painful” and said in a website posting that it “will have a significant impact on the Tk’emlúps community and in the communities served by this residential school.” The authority’s CEO, Richard Jock, said the discovery “illustrates the damaging and lasting impacts that the residential school system continues to have on First Nations people, their families and communities,.” Nicole Schabus, a law professor at Thompson Rivers University, said each of her first-year law students at the Kamloops university spends at least one day at the former residential school speaking with survivors about conditions they had endured. She said she did not hear survivors talk about an unmarked grave area, “but they all talk about the kids who didn’t make it.” Australia also apologized for its so-called Stolen Generations - thousands of Aborigines forcibly taken from their families as children under assimilation policies that lasted from 1910 to 1970. Canada offered those who were taken from their families compensation for the years they attended the residential schools. The offer was part of a lawsuit settlement.

Police in separate drives recovered bodies with gunshot wounds from Cox’s Bazar district town and Teknaf upazila on Tuesday.

Two sisters drowned in a waterbody in Kolkotkha village in Jamalganj upazila on Sunday morning.

Three women and a college student were found dead in Naogaon, Jashore and Sherpur districts on Thursday.

Bodies of three people, who went missing following a boat capsize in Barohompur river in Kashimpur area of Ulipur upazila, were recovered on Thursday morning.   The deceased were identified as- Nuru, 60, Amena, 61 and Kamruzzaman, 42.   Moazzem Hossain, officer-in-charge of Ulipur Police Station, said  the boat carrying 50 people, who were returning after attending a marriage ceremony, sank in the river in the evening.   Four people including bride’s father, went missing after the incident while others managed to swim ashore.   A divers’ team of fire service retrieved the bodies in the morning.

Members of  Bangladesh Coast Guard recovered the bodies of two people, believed to have been the victims of  trawler capsize of February 11, from Paschimpara beach in St Martin’s Island in Teknaf upazila here on Monday, raising the death from the accident to 21.

The bodies of two workers, who remained missing after a stone-laden trawler sank in the Padma River at Debgram Kawaljani in Goalanda upazila on Friday afternoon, were recovered on Sunday.