Missing Chinese man found dead in Chattogram

A Chinese national, who had gone missing on Wednesday, was found dead in a waterbody near the southern part of the Banshkhali Thermal Power Plant in Chattogram on Thursday.

The Chinese national, G Kingwan, 34, working at the thermal power plant in Banshkhali, remained missing since Wednesday noon.

He was last spotted catching fish in the Bay of Bengal, said Safiul Kabir, officer-in-charge of Banshkhali Police Station.

Kingwan, along with his colleagues, went to the site adjacent to the Bay of Bengal on Wednesday morning to join a pipe-installation work. His colleagues informed the police about his disappearance around 2:30pm.

Later, a general diary was registered with the Banshkhali police station.

On Thursday morning, local people spotted the floating body of the Chinese man in the waterbody and informed the police, said Akter Hossain, sub-inspector of the police station.

 Police later took the body and sent it to Chattogram Medical College and Hospital for autopsy.

“We’ve no idea how the Chinese man died. Police are investigating it,” said chief coordinator of the power plant Faruk Ahmed.