Clinker-laden cargo vessel capsizes in Kirtonkhola
A cargo vessel carrying cement clinkers capsized after it collided with a passenger launch in Kirtonkhola river in Barishal Sadar upazila last night.
No casualties were reported, our Barisal correspondent reports quoting Azmal Huda Mithu, deputy director of Bangladesh Inland Water Transport Authority (BIWTA) in Barishal.
The vessel from Chattogram sank in the river immediately after it collided with Dhaka-bound launch MV Shahrukh-2 from Barguna in Barishal river port area around 10:30pm, said Azmal.
The Barishal-bound Dudu Mia-1 was carrying 1200 tonnes of cement clinkers, he said.
Nearly 300 passengers of the launch were taken to Dhaka by another launch, MV Pubali, as a crack developed on the bottom of the launch following the collision, he said.
Police, fire service and staff of BIWTA took part in an operation to rescue the passengers.
“Now we are trying to salvage the sunken vessel,” the BIWTA official added.
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