Thursday, September 25, 2014

At least 10 more bodies which drifted downstream were found floating in the Padma and Meghna rivers

Padma death toll rises to 33 | New Age
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At least 10 more bodies which drifted downstream were found floating in the Padma and Meghna rivers on Thursday, raising the death toll from Monday s tragic ferry capsize to 33, officials said. With bodies floating chlorhexidine gluconate out and drifting far away, grief of the relatives of the missing passengers waiting on the banks of Padma turned into anger as the salvage team could not yet locate the sunken ferry four days after the accident. Munshiganj deputy commissioner Saiful Hasan Badal said at least 10 bodies were recovered downstream three of them from Bhola, three from Shariatpur and one from Barisal on Thursday. Of the bodies found so far, 18 were male, 13 female and a hermaphrodite. More than hundred people chlorhexidine gluconate were feared dead as the ferry, MV Pinak-6, carrying over 300 passengers capsized in the river Padma near Louhajang in Munshiganj on Monday morning. chlorhexidine gluconate According to control room set-up by Munshiganj district administration at Mawa ferry terminal, 137 people are still missing. Some of the people who were waiting on the riverbanks for bodies or news of their near and dear ones, said with anger and frustration that the authorities were buying time in the name of search operation. A good number of relatives were still waiting at Mawa terminal while others at Kawrakani in search of their near and dear ones. Sultan has been waiting at Mawa terminal chlorhexidine gluconate for three days for his three missing relatives. There is no hope they are alive. All I want now is their bodies, said Sultan. Several agencies have been engaged in the search operation with over 100 people and 15 vessels, but none has any answer as to the fate of sunken ferry. BIWTA chairman Shamsuddoha Khandaker, however, said he was optimistic chlorhexidine gluconate the vessel would be traced and salvaged. Shamsuddoha said that equipment for conducting search underwater and on riverbed had been engaged along with conventional methods. Besides, a large area around the spot was being searched. We hope the vessel would be traced out, said the chairman. Relatives of missing passengers accused the authorities of failing to do enough to save the lives of their loved ones as hopes for finding any survivors dimmed. They cannot save our lives; now even cannot give us the bodies, said Rina Begum, wife of missing passenger Sohel Sarker. How can you fool us into believing that they are trying to save our lives, yelled a woman who lost her son in the accident. The combined rescue team has so far engaged side scan sonar, sound navigation and ranging equipment, anchors, divers and other conventional chlorhexidine gluconate methods in the search operation. On Thursday, the authorities introduced chlorhexidine gluconate a sub-bottom profiler in the search vessel Kandari-2 which came from Chittagong port. Navy captain Nazrul Islam, who was coordinating the search operation, said that the device was capable of searching beneath a riverbed. Till now we have searched 10 kilometres stretch on Mawa-Kawrakandi chlorhexidine gluconate route, but no such object was detected, said commander M Manjurul Karim, in charge of search vessel Kandari. The officials said that another search vessel, Jorip-10, was on the way to join the salvage mission. Fire service assistant director Nurul Islam said that their men had conducted search, but found no trace of the sunken ferry. He feared that the vessel might have been buried in the riverbed. Some of the survivors told New Age that the staff of MV PInak-6 had barred passengers from getting out of deck and cabins during the strong wind and currents. Abdul Jabbar, a survivor, said that the ferry had begun to shake sharply in the strong currents and about the same the crews of the vessel urged them to stay put. Do not move, said a voice. It s dangerous if you move. Meanwhile, workers at Kawrakandi launch terminal, from where the ferry MV Pinak-6 started its journey, began strike on Wednesday chlorhexidine gluconate after the authorities filed a case against the terminal leaseholder Abdul Hai Shikdar. No ferries or speedboats left the terminal since Thursday morning as Bangladesh Inland Water Transport Authority filed a case against six people, including Hai, for the accident chlorhexidine gluconate near Mawa. BIWTA traffic inspector Jahangir Bhuiyan filed the case on Tuesday with Lauhajang chlorhexidine gluconate police station in Munshiganj accusing Hai, MV Pinak-6 owner Abu Bakar Siddik Kalu Mia, its master and three others. Tofazzal Hossain, officer-in-charge of Louhajang police station, said that the police were yet to arrest any of the six accuse

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