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Kutubdia tragedy

19 more bodies recovered

From Our Correspondent
'TOX'S BAZAR. Oct 17:
Nineteen more, bodies were recovered today. raising the death toll to 64 in Sunday s engine boat capsize in the Kutubdia channel.
The search for others also fared drowned continued.'
The boat carrying some 170 members of a bridal party sank in the channel of the Bay of Bengal Sunday noon. Thirty
seven passengers were still I missing
The Deputy Commissioner has formed a three-member committee led by the ADM, Mohammad Baker, to Investigate the boat tragedy The DC has also sanctioned Taka 50.006 one and a half ton of rice. 103 pieces of lungM. 100 pieces of saree and 200 yards . of cloth for the members of the affected families who were still searching for their dear and near ones.
The DC. Enamul Kabir along with the SP left for the offshore island. 50 km from the beach town early this morning to supervise the rescue operation. Besides, the officials and employees of Kutub-dia. Chokoria and Moheshkhall thanas were participating in the rescue operation. The officials also visited the houses of the victims to assure their relatives of all possible government assistance.
The district -administration has ordered arrest of the
engine boat owner Shaker uliah. Chairman of Baraghup union, as the local people continued demonstration* demanding his arrest alleging that the engine boat was faulty.
inc rx>ai. from the
channel, was seized today by police.
Fhe 19 bodies, recovered today, were buried. A gavebana janaza was held at Kutubdia this afternoon. The local unit of BNP organised a condolence meeting at Kutubdia and the speakers demanded confiscation of all the riverine vessels, owned by Shakerullah and his immediate arrest and punishment.
Local MP Mohammad Ishak. Gana Forum leader advocate Zahlrul Islam, principal of Cox's Bazar Mahila College Osman Sarwar Choudhury and other local leaders also visited Kutubdia to console the affected families.
UNB adds;
Local units of all major political parties organised a Gaebana Janaza at Kutubdia Thana Parishad Bhaban premises at 11 am with several thousand people attending.
All the educational institutions — schools, colleges and tnadrassas — remained closed, traders kept their shops shuttered In all six unions, including Baraghup where a single Joint-family. 'Matbar -Paribar". lost its 28 members.
The same engine boat had earlier also met with accidents twice In the river Karnaphuli in November last year which left 28 passengers dead and again In August this year in Moheshkhali channel in which 40 were killed, local people said.