Coast-Guard

Three months ago, Abdullah Al Mamun was promoted and began working as a fourth engineer aboard the foreign flagged vessel Ocean Winner. A native of Satkhira Sadar upazila in Bangladesh, he began his career as a sailor in 2014 after earning a degree from a private marine academy. This was his fifth ship. After receiving news of his promotion, he performed Umrah. He then joined the vessel. Last Saturday, Ocean Winner was sailing to Singapore from the Paraban Port in Odisha, India. The ship...

The Bangladesh Coast Guard has recovered a large cache of weapons, ammunition and firearm-making equipment during an operation in the remote hills of Hwanak in Maheshkhali upazila of Cox’s Bazar. During the operation, Imam Hossain Mintu (38), the alleged chief of the so-called ‘Mintu Bahini,’ was arrested. According to the Coast Guard, Mintu had long been creating panic in the area by manufacturing and supplying illegal weapons, engaging in piracy, robbery and carrying out various terrori...