The body of one of the four people who went missing in the oil tanker explosion in Jhalakathi’s Sugandha river has been recovered. The Coast Guard recovered the body of greaser Abdus Salam Hridoy from the engine room of the damaged ship on Sunday (July 2) afternoon.
Hriday’s home is in Madabpur area of ​​Habiganj district. He worked as a greaser in Sagar Nandini 2 for a long time. Coast Guard Southern Zone Operations Officer Lt. Col. Shafaye confirmed this information.
Meanwhile, ship master Ruhul Amin Khan, resident of Bakerganj upazila of Barisal, Masudul Alam Bellal of Super Vizier Chandpur Sadar and Sarwar Hossain of Mathbaria upazila of Pirojpur, driver of the ship, are still missing.
According to the police and eyewitnesses, Sagar Nandini-2 loaded 1.1 lakh liters of petrol and diesel to the oil depot on the bank of Sugandha river. The ship exploded while anchored on the shore around 2 pm on Saturday. Later the entire ship caught fire. Four people were burnt Five others we .
