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Eight people were missing and ten others injured as armed pirates looted a passenger trawler in the Meghna estuary in offshore Kalatola-Telirchar area in Manpura upazila in Bhola district Saturday afternoon.

The injured are being treated at Manpura hospital.

Police said the pirates beat the passengers on board Monpura bound trawler ML Seven Star from Ramgati and looted about Tk two lakh in cash and valuables. The eight are missing as they jumped into the rough river from the trawler.