Cruise ship stuck in mid sea
Cruise ship stuck in mid sea 'safely returned'
The cruise ship that was stuck in the middle of the sea returned to Patenga successfully at noon on Friday, according to the port authority.
The tugboat Kandari-10 reached the spot on Friday morning, 17 nautical miles from Patenga, and dragged the MV Bay-1 ship along with its passengers to shore.
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Earlier, panic gripped some 800 passengers of a Saint Martin Island-bound luxury cruise ship on Friday midnight after thick smoke-filled areas of the vessel, prompting its operator to anchor mid-sea.
"The thick smoke from the engine room soon engulfed areas of the ship, triggering chaos on board. However, the ship's crew extinguished the fire in a short time," stranded passenger Md Arman Hossain told UNB.
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Engineer Moin Uddin, an official of Karnafuli ShipBuilders and operating in charge of Bay-1, said, "One of the two engines of the ship became useless. The ship could run with an engine but it didn’t take a risk and returned without going to St. Martin," he added.
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