6 bodies wash ashore in Cox’s Bazar
Bangladesh
10 July, 2019, 10:00 am
Last modified: 10 July, 2019, 05:32 pm
The deceased are yet to be identified.
Photo: Collected
Police have recovered bodies of six people from Sughanda point of Cox's Bazar sea beach on Wednesday morning.
The identities of the deceased could not be known yet.
Khairuzzaman, officer-in-charge (investigation) of Sadar Model Police Station, said being informed by local people a team of police recovered four bodies from the beach around 6 am while retrieved two other bodies around 8 am.
Police also found a trawler near the beach.
Police suspected that all the victims are fishermen and might have died in trawler capsize amid storm.
The bodies were taken to Sadar Hospital morgue for autopsy.
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