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Survey ship drowns near Payra port: 10 Indonesian, 2 Bangladeshi crew members rescued
A survey ship of Belgium-based company Jan De Nul working in the Rabnabad channel drowned near Payra port in Patuakhali on Monday.
However, 10 Indonesian and two Bangladeshi crew members onboard the ship named Express-54 were immediately rescued by a fishing boat and later they reached the port by a tugboat of the company.
The ship drowned seven nautical miles off the fare buoy of the port on Monday morning.
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Captain ASM Sharifur Rahman, harbor master of the port, said water started gushing through a hole beside the ship's machine room when it was out for survey work for dredging.
The crews immediately sought help from a nearby fishing boat and had been safely rescued, he said.
He said the process is on to pull out the drowned ship from the water.
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The rescued are- master Arham Abdul Rahim, chief officer Mochamad Rizal, second officer Darmawan, chief engineer Muhammad Nur, second engineer Trai Yanto, oiler Rahmat Fadilla, AB Audi Cristian, AB Rudi Rahman, oiler Muhammad Agam Fayez Julfa, cook Jujua Anglebert, surveyor Saiduzzaman Imon, and MD Sohanuzzaman Sumon.
13 stranded fishermen rescued from Bay
Coast Guard members on Sunday rescued 13 fishermen, who remained stranded in a fishing trawler for five days in the Bay of Bengal.
The fishermen went to the Bay of Bengal from Patharghata area in Barguna district on November 28 for fishing.
On December 1, their fishing trawler went out of order and they also lost their mobile network which forced them to stay in the Bay for five days.
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On Sunday, they got their network back and managed to call national emergency helpline number 999 and the 999 operators informed the matter to Coast Guard. After tracing the trawler the Coast Guard members rescued the stranded fishermen 15 km off Nijhum Dwip in Hatiya around 5:30 pm.
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999 call: 7 tourists stuck on boat in Kaptai Lake rescued after hours
Police rescued seven tourists, including women and children, as they got stuck in an engine boat in the Kaptai Lake on Thursday night after they had made a call to the national emergency service number 999.
Sanzid Ahmed, a resident of Dhaka, along with families and friends went to visit Rangamati and the Kaptai Lake in an engine boat on Thursday.
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The boat got stuck in a swarm of water hyacinths near Balukhali and the propeller of the boat’s engine broke as the boatman repeatedly tried to restart it.
Stuck in the middle of the lake for hours, Sanzid called on the helpline number 999 around 1:30 pm requesting for their rescue.
Following the call, a request for a speedy rescue of the tourists was made to the naval police control room and Rangamati sadar naval police outpost.
Then, a team, led by in-charge Inspector of Rangamati naval police Rusel Mia and assistant sub-inspector Nazmul, started a rescue operation.
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After a few hours of their efforts, the tourist group was safely rescued from the boat.
On September 7, another tourist group of eight people were rescued from the Kaptai Lake after they had sought help through the national emergency service number.
3 missing children rescued from Sylhet's Jaflong
Three minor boys, who went missing from Sylhet's Dakshin Surma two days ago, were rescued from the district's Gowainghat Saturday.
Some locals handed them over to police after finding them at Jaflong Zero Point, said Dakshin Surma Police Station Officer-in-Charge Md Monirul Islam.
The children are 13-year-old twin brothers Hassan and Hossain, and Apu, 10, from Dakshin Surma's village Ahmedpur.
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All three are madrasa students. Hassan and Hossain's cousin Salah Uddin said the trio left the house around 6am Thursday and did not return.
After failing to trace them, he filed a general diary with Dakshin Surma police station the same day.
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3 fishing cat cubs rescued in Cumilla
Police have rescued three rare fishing cat cubs, locally known as ‘Mecho Bagh’, from Changaon Noapara village in Laksham upazila on Monday and handed these over to the forest department.
More than 1,000 immigrants rescued by Libyan Coast Guard this year: UNHCR
The United Nations Higher Commission of Refugees (UNHCR) on Friday said that more than 1,000 illegal immigrants have been rescued by the Libyan Coast Guard so far this year.
Rare eagle rescued in Panchagarh
A rare eagle was rescued from Dhangram in Boda upazila.
All children kept hostage rescued, accused killed in north India
All the 23 children and a woman taken hostage were safely rescued and the accused killed in a police operation that lasted nearly ten hours in India's northern state of Uttar Pradesh, senior cops told media persons early on Friday.
Newborn rescued from Chattogram dustbin
Police rescued a newborn baby girl from a dustbin in Bayazid Bostami area of the city on Sunday morning.
Rape victim rescued, 6 suspects held after 999 call
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