Half-melted bodies of 10 people have been recovered from a fishing boat floating in the coast near Cox’s Bazar. Each body has injury marks. There was no way to know the identity of the half-melted bodies. Finally, the identity of 10 fishermen rescued from the fishing boat in a half-melted condition has been known. All the dead are Maheshkhali and A resident of Chakaria. The owner of the sunken trawler is Samshul Alam, a resident of Hwanak Union in Maheshkhali. He is one of the dead people. According to the police, the trawler may have been deliberately killed in the deep sea due to past enmity and sunk the trawler or pirates may have looted the trawler’s fish in the deep sea and trapped the fishermen in ice call boxes and sunk the trawler. Police Bureau of Investigation ( According to PBI) and local public representative sources, among the dead are Samshul Alam (23) son of Rafiq Mia of Chankhola para of Hwanak Union of Maheshkhali Upazila, Saiful Islam (18) son of Delwar Hossain of Mitachhari village of Shaplapur Union, Sawkat Ullah (18) son of Zafar Alam, Osman Gani (17), son of Musa Ali, Saifullah (23), son of Sahab Mia, Parvez Musharraf (14), son of Muhammad Ali, Nurul Kabir (28), son of Muhammad Hossain, Saiful Islam (34), son of Kabir Hossain of Konakhali Union of Chakaria Upazila, Shah Alam Son Mohammad Shahjahan (35) and Tarek Zia (25) son of Jasim Uddin of Chiringa area of Chakaria Municipality.
Claiming that the incident was premeditated, Officer-in-Charge (OC) of Cox’s Bazar Sadar Model Police Station Md. Rafiqul Islam said that half-melted bodies of 10 prisoners were recovered from the ice storage room of the trawler. . Three of them had their hands and feet tied with ropes. Some had nets on their bodies. One body had its head severed from its neck. Another body was found with severed hands. The cover of the call box where the dead bodies were recovered from the trawler was also nailed. Moreover, the net and engine of the trawler remained. For this reason, it is suspected that the murder was premeditated. According to police and local sources, the trawler sunk in the deep sea was caught in the net of another fishing trawler. The fishermen of that trawler pulled the sinking trawler with a rope and brought it to Sonadia channel in Maheshkhali. Last Sunday (April 23) around 1:30 p.m., when the sinking trawler reached the Nazirertek (west of the airport) channel in Cox’s Bazar city, the hands and feet of the dead people were seen floating. The fishermen of the pulled trawler got scared. They fled leaving the sinking trawler. Police and fire service reached the spot around 2 o’clock when local people informed about sinking trawler loaded with dead bodies. With the help of local people, police and fire service members recovered the half-melted bodies of 10 people from the trawler till three o’clock in the afternoon. After that, the bodies were sent to the morgue of Cox’s Bazar Sadar Hospital for autopsy. Immediately after the incident, a PBI team entered the field to unravel the mystery. PBI chief and Additional IG of Police Banaj Kumar Majumdar are monitoring the incident. By evening, the PBI team identified the initial identities of the 10 dead prisoners. Banaj Kumar Majumdar said at night that the PBI identified the initial identities of the 10 dead prisoners. Out of 10 jails, 6 are from Mithachari of Shaplapur union of Maheshkhali upazila, one is from Kalamarchhara village of the same upazila and the other three are from Konakhali village of Chakaria upazila. All the deceased went into the sea with a fishing trawler on April 7. It is suspected that the trawler was sunk after the fishermen were trapped in the ice storage room. The investigation is going on. Jahangir Alam, a member of Ward No. 2 of Maheshkhali’s Hoanak Union Parishad, said that on the night of April 7, a trawler owned by Samshul Alam, a resident of his area, went fishing in the Bay of Bengal with 11 fishermen. The owner of the trawler, Samshul Alam and the navigator Mohammad Musao were in the trawler. After two days he (UP member) came to know that the trawler was sunk in the sea. But various stories were heard in the area about why it was sunk. According to the local people, Samshul Alam had a dispute with some other fishing boats over fishing in the deep sea. In the end, the fishermen of some trawlers beat the Samshul fishermen, tied the hands and feet of the fishermen and locked them in the fish room and sunk the trawler. Many people say that the pirates have sunk the trawler after looting the fish.
However, it has been confirmed that the trawler belongs to Samshul Alam. Khan Khalilur Rahman, senior station officer of Cox’s Bazar Fire Service, said that it does not seem like a normal accident after seeing the condition of the bodies recovered from the sinking trawler. The bodies were wrapped in netting and tied with ropes. The recovered trawler is lying on the coast of the city’s North Qutubdia Para. The trawler completely floated during the low tide. The trawler is currently in the custody of the police, said Md. Rafiqul Islam, OC of Cox’s Bazar Sadar Model Police Station. Meanwhile, the identity of Samshul Alam (trawler owner) who died in the morgue of Cox’s Bazar Sadar Hospital last Sunday night. Identified by his wife Rokeya Akhter. Although the appearance was distorted, the relatives identified six more bodies by looking at the clothes they were wearing. UP member Jahangir Alam said that the relatives will identify the bodies and take them to Maheshkhali from the police yesterday.
