The floating bodies of five fishermen were recovered on Friday afternoon, five days after a trawler capsized in the Bay of Bengal estuary near Charfesson upazila in Bhola.
The bodies were recovered from the Bay of Bengal estuary at about 2:00pm on Friday, Bhola additional superintendent of police Md Asaduzzaman Khan and local administration confirmed.
The deceased are Md Harun Dorji, Md Sharif Hossain, Md Shattar Hawlader, Md Nur Islam and Fazle Karim Bari.
According to sources at Samraj Fishghat in Charfession, on June 23, a total of 13 fishermen went for fishing in the Bay of Bengal with the trawler of local Jahangir Majhi.
A day later, on June 24, the trawler capsized in the sea and 13 fishermen went missing.
On Friday morning, six fishermen were rescued and were admitted to Charfession Upazila Health Complex.
According to the information given by them, local fishermen and fish traders recovered the bodies of five fishermen from the Bay of Bengal at about 2:00pm on Friday.
As a result, two fishermen are still missing.
All the injured, killed and missing fishermen are from different villages of Charfession upazila.
Charfession UNO Al Noman told reporters that the Bhola district administration will provide financial assistance of Tk 20,000 each to the families of the five fishermen killed in the incident.
It is to be noted that although there was a 65-day ban on fishing in the sea, the fishermen had gone fishing evading the eyes of the administration.
