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Separate teams of police, including the Criminal Investigation Department (CID) and the Police Bureau of Investigation (PIB), have started working to unearth the mystery behind the recovery of ten partially decomposed bodies from a sinking fishing trawler in Cox’s Bazar.
“We are trying to identify those who are involved in the incident. Our teams have been investigating the incident... CID and PBI teams have also come here from Dhaka and started the investigation,” said DIG of Chattogram range of police Anwar Hossain.
He said family members have so far identified four of the ten bodies. DNA of the remaining six bodies will be kept in collec-tion for determining their identity, he added.
Speaking to reporters, Anwar Hossain said they are yet to say clearly who are involved in the incident and for what reason they have committed such a crime.
He also said they are trying to identify those who are involved in piracy in the sea. A few years ago, around 96 pirates sur-rendered in Maheshkhali and most of them returned to normal life, he said, adding that many pirates also surrendered to police in Banshkhali and they also went back to normal life.
On Sunday, ten bodies were recovered from the cold storage of a fishing trawler along the coast in the district’s Nazirartek area. The trawler went missing more than a week ago in the Bay.
Locals saw a floating trawler in the Bay on Saturday morning. They brought the trawler to the shore in the area and while checking the cold storage, they saw the hands and legs of humans, said Cox’s Bazar municipality’s Ward 1 Councilor Aktar Kamal.
He said they immediately informed Sadar police who rushed to the spot on Saturday evening. With the cooperation of Fire Service and Civil Defence personnel, police recovered 10 partially decomposed bodies from the trawler, he added.
