999-service

A woman named Rehena Akter (40), called the National Emergency Service 999 in Dhaka’s Sabujbagh and reported that she had killed her husband. Police later arrested her. Rehena Akter called 999 from a neighborhood near Nandipara Boro Mosque at around 12:00 pm on Thursday, September 3. The information was disclosed in a press release signed by Police Inspector Anwar Sattar, media and public relations officer of the National Emergency Service 999. The press release said the woman claimed ove...

Sixteen fishermen who had been drifting after their boat's engine broke down in the Pashur River area of the Bay of Bengal were safely rescued by the Bangladesh Navy. The rescue operation was conducted Sunday night after one of the fishermen called the national emergency service 999. According to sources in the naval police and Coast Guard, a fishing trawler carrying 16 fishermen left Rayenda in Sharankhola, Bagerhat, for the deep sea on August 19. Two days after they began fishing, the...