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Indian navy abducts 67 fishermen

From Staff Correspondent
KHULNA. Jan 25: The In dton navy Intruding Bangladesh waters on Friday morning kidnapped 67 fishermen with eight trawlers from near Tal-pattl about 30 kilometres off Heron point near the Sundarbans.
Two Indian navy gunboats Intruded Into the Bangladesh lerritorla) waters and kidnapped them while they were fishing. law enforcing agency sources said .
Two of the eight trawlers and Its 13 fishermen were, however, released late Friday. Those two trawlers were owned by the Bangladesh Fish Development Corporation, the source added.
The freed fishermen reported the matter with Pa-tharghata police under Patua khali district at dawn Saturday
The fate and whereabouts of the kidnapped fishermen could not be known.
UNB adds: The six trawlers taken away by the Indian navy I* worth about Tk 50 lakh, according to the crew released.
Three of the trawlers were from Patharghata upazila of the district. These are FB Kuddus. • FB falyub and FB Rexona. Name of three other trawlers which were from Chittagong could not be known.
A case has been lodged with Patharghata police in this connection. Our staff correspondent adds: A flag
meeting between Bangladesh and India is likely to take Kce on February 7 on the napping of 24 Bangladesh fishctoncn by the I nd kin navul forces last month. ~
Colonel Anwar Hossain.
Khulna sector commander of the Bangladesh Rifles (BDR). told the Daily Star today that the Bangladesh side would confirm with Its Indian coun terpart the Border Security Forces (BSF) on its partlctpa tion in a day or two.
The BSF proposed the bat talion commander-level flag meeting of the two countries at Ba san lapur BDR outpost In-Satkhlra district. Col. Anwar added
According to him. the proposal for flag meeting came from the BSF three days ago following release of the fish-«rmrn
The Indian Navy kidnapped the 24 fishermen while they were fishing In the Bangladesh river In Roymangoi on December 15 last year. Four of them sustained sounds In firing by the Indian naval forces. Most of the fishermen hall from Satkhira and the coastal areas of Chittagong.