A total of 17 fishermen went missing after a trawler capsized in the Bay of Bengal near Sundarbans at around 9am Saturday.
Md. Golam Choudhury, President of Barguna fishing trawler owners association, a trawler named ‘Tariqul-1’ capsized with 17 fishermen in the Bay of Bengal after heavy rain.
We sent several trawlers in the Bay to search for the missing fishermen, he added.