A diving squad has recovered the bodies of three people who had gone missing after a boat capsized in the Chalan Beel area of Pabna’s Chatmohar. Two others are still missing.
As of 12pm on Saturday, the divers had recovered the bodies of two women and a child, said Chatmohar Upazila UNO Sarkar Ashim Kumar.
The boat had capsized in the Handial Paikpara area at around 8:00 pm on Friday. Though four people were initially reported missing, the count was raised to five later on.
The three bodies have been identified as Shahanaz Parveen Parul, 45, Momtaz Parveen Shiuli, 45, and Sadia Khatun, 10.
Shiuli’s husband, Billol Hossain Goni, 52, and Sadia Khatun’s father, Rafiqul Islam Swapan Biswas, 44, are still missing.
The group had been touring the Chalan Beel area on the boat. Their boat capsized in the Paikpara area as they were headed back, bdnews24 reported.
Police and a diving squad from Rajshahi are conducting rescue operations, UNO Kumar said.
The sunken vessel has been located, said Pabna Fire Service and Civil Defence Deputy Director Saiful Islam. Operations are underway to find the missing.