17 bodies recovered as another Rohingya boat capsizes
Published : 31 Aug 2017, 10:55
Seventeen bodies were recovered this morning from Naf river in Shah Pori Dweep area in Teknaf upazila of Cox’s Bazar where a boat capsized in the river last night.
The identity of the victims 10 children and seven women could not be known immediately.
Local sources said hundreds of Rohingyas from Myanmar entered Shah Pori Dweep, an island, riding boats last night.
When the fleet reached Majhir ghat point, one of the boats capsized around 11:30pm yesterday and all the passengers went missing.
Later, locals and newly intruded Rohingyas spotted 17 bodies floating at several points of the Naf river in the morning and informed police, said M Mainuddin Khan, officer-in-charge (OC) of Teknaf Police Station.
A team of police rushed in and recovered the bodies that include 10 children and seven females, said the OC.
With the recovery of the 17 bodies, the death toll from Rohingya boat capsizes rises to 21 as four bodies of Rohingyas were recovered from the river yesterday after a boat, carrying around 25 people, capsized.
Source: unb