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Sailor missing as 2 vessels sink near Bhashan Char in Bay

A sailor has gone missing after two vessels sank near Bhashan Char in the Bay of Bengal on Thursday.The lighter vessels were carrying goods from Chittagong Port to Narayanganj, said Mohammad Selim, deputy director of the Bangladesh Inland Water Transport Authority (BIWTA).The missing sailor was working on the ‘Khaja Baba Faridpuri’, which was laden with 1,700 metric tonnes of wheat, he told bdnews24.com. The other vessel that sank was called ‘N Islam’.“The Khaja Baba started to sink in the waters...

25 Jan 2019, 12:00 am