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Andaman Sea Tragedy

175 Bangladeshis back home

A Correspondent, Benapoie
India yesterday handed over 175 Bangladeshi nationals rescued around eight months ago from the sea near the Andaman Islands.
Most of the returnees hail from Cox's Bazarand Bandarban.
Tareque Mohammad Ariful Islam, counselor of Bangladesh mission at Kolkata, officials of Bangladesh Rifles, police, and Bangladesh Red Crescent Society formally received them at Benapoie.
Indian coastguards went to their rescue when they were left marooned in the sea by theThal navy last December.
The navy caught them on their way to Malaysia and they took off the engines from the trawlers.
The Andaman Islands authorities sheltered them for the last several months.
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Tareque said that after having permission from Indian government, they were brought to Kolkata from Port Blair, the capital of Andaman Islands, last Thursday. They reached Kolkata on Sunday.
First Secretary of Bangladesh mission at Kolkata, Md Abul Hasan Mridha accompanied them.
They had an arrangement for primary check up and treatment by the Bangladesh Red Crescent Society and International Committee of the Red Cross at Benapole check post.
They were sent to Cox's Bazar via Dhaka under special arrangements.
The victim Kabir Uddin, of Teknaf, said they were around 500 people and 305 of them starved to death.
“We survived on little food that Thai navy left us with," he added.
Returnees Hashem, Amin and Malek said some local manpower brokers took Tk 13,000 to Tk 60,000 promising them jobs in Malaysia and have them boarded on trawlers from Teknaf in Cox's Bazar for Malaysia.