Trawler capsizes with 21 people in Fatulla

A trawler capsized  with 21 passengers aboard after a head-on collision with a bulkhead in the Dhaleswari river at Fatulla in Narayanganj. No casualties were reported as al the passengers in the trawler  managed to get ashore.

The incident took place at 3:30 am on Friday (August 12) near Baktabali Ferighat in Fatulla.

Trawler bargemen Amjad Hossain said that every morning, different types of businessmen go to their shop in Narayanganj town from Baktabali. At least 20/21 traders boarded a trawler from Baktavali Upper Ghat to go to the city like an y other day. A short distance from the ghat, I let a passenger named Ali Mia drive the trawler and went to collect the fare. At that time the trawler has almost reached the other ghat. Just then a bulkhead from Dhaka to Munshiganj came and lifted us in the middle of the trawler. I heard that the passengers had all sat down and gone up to the river bank. He said, I know everyone who was in the trawler. I saw all of them climbing to the shore.

Deputy Assistant Director of Narayanganj Fire Service and Civil Defense Abdullah Al Arefin said, two of our teams are searching the river. So far no one has claimed the missing subject. Still our people are in the river.