The death toll from a trawler capsize in the Karnaphuli River in Chattogram in Bangladesh has increased to six after the River Police recovered two more bodies and a survivor died in hospital.
Police recovered one body on Wednesday night, a day after the trawler sank near the Isanagar Sea-Resource dockyard and seven people on board went missing.
Four more bodies were recovered by Thursday afternoon.
Divers of the Fire Service and Civil Defence were still working to find the other missing people, said their leader Md Hanif Mia. The divers started work on Wednesday but their efforts were disrupted due to strong currents.
The steel body trawler Magferat was kept at its company’s private dockyard at the Sea-Resource jetty for a revamp.
As the trawler was being pulled to the yard, its propeller broke and it veered out of control. It hit the other fishing boats and buoys near the jetty and capsized.