Staff Reporter :
A Bangladeshi Youth, Sabbir Hassan, who went missing over a year, has been identified by his father when his photograph was published in national and international media along with Bangladesh and Rohingya migrants rescued in Indonesia recently.
“He is our son, we are sure about it,” these are the words of a man, whose university going son went missing during an outing in St Martin of Cox’s Bazar a year back.
Hasanur Rahman, father of missing Sabbir Hassan, said over a year his son, a student of Ahsanullah University of Science and Technology, went into missing at the coast of St Martin Island. He claimed that his son is among the rescued migrants from a boat in Aceh of Indonesia.
A joyful trip turned tragic in a simple twist of fate when four students of the university drowned and two others went missing in the waters of St Martin’s where they went to celebrate Pahela Baishakh last year. Sabbir was among the ill-fated one who went missing there.
According to BBC Bangla and private television Channel I, Hasanur Rahman, father of missing Sabbir Hassan, said, he (Sabbir) is his son. “We are confirmed that he is our son. He remained missing during an outing in St Martin of Cox’s Bazar a year ago.”
Sabbir is the student of a Computer Science and Engineering Department of the Ahsanullah University of Science and Technology.
It is presumed that he (Sabbir) might be trafficked by the human smugglers while floating in the sea.
International news agency Reuters published the photograph of the rescued migrants on May 11. Four boats carrying some 1,400 Rohingya migrants were rescued near the coasts of Indonesia and Malaysia on May 11.
On the same day, Indonesian search and rescue teams discovered another boat drifting near East Aceh with 400 men, women and children from Myanmar and Bangladesh aboard.
“I along with my wife saw the photograph of our son after 14 months,” said Sabbir’s father,
Talking to the private satellite television Channel I, Sabbir’s mother said, “I can recognise my son.”
“I’m sure he is my son as his (Sabbir) sleeping style is very known to me,” she said.
