The body of one of two men who went missing while bathing in the Padma at Mawa, in Louhajang upazila of Munshiganj, has been recovered 24 hours later. The two had come on an outing from the capital.
On the second day of the search, at noon on Tuesday, October 27, fire service divers recovered the body of Md Maruf Hossain, 40, from the river about 200 yards from the spot. The body was handed to the river police.
Md Rasel, 35, is still missing, and the search for him continues, fire service sources said.
Muhammad Shafiqul Islam, deputy assistant director of Munshiganj Fire Service and Civil Defence, confirmed this to Naya Diganta on Tuesday afternoon.
The accident happened at around 2:30pm on Monday in the Padma near pillars 4 and 5 of the Padma Bridge. Fire service divers from Munshiganj, Mawa river police and the Coast Guard then began searching for the two.
Shafiqul Islam said the divers started the second day’s search at 8am and recovered Maruf’s body about 24 hours after he went missing. The divers are still searching for Rasel, and the operation will continue until he is found, he said.
Md Malek Khasru Khan, in charge of the Mawa river police outpost, told Naya Diganta the body was recovered at around 2:30pm near the China Project speedboat ghat on the Padma. The process of handing it to the family is under way.
A group of eight, including office staff of Sharif Landmark Limited from Khilgaon in Dhaka, came to the old Mawa launch ghat area around noon on Monday. At one point they walked across the char and went into the water to bathe on the west side of pillars 4 and 5 of the Padma Bridge. Six of them swam back to the bank, but two went missing. One of the bodies was recovered on Tuesday.
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