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...
