At least twenty bodies have been
recovered after a passenger trawler capsized following a head-on
collision with another sand loaded trawler at Laiska swamp here this
evening.
Police and fire fighters immediately rushed to the scene and
conducted rescue operation.
Hayat-Ud Dowla, deputy commissioner of Brahmanbaria, said that the
number of causalities may further rise as the trawler carrying over
100 passengers from Champaknagar ghat of Bijoynagar upazila heading
towards Anandabazar and sank under water after stuck with another sand
loaded trawler en route to Laiskya swamp this afternoon.